The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 502 or -502?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -502?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-502| = ?
The absolute value of -502 is the distance between -502 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -502:
Since the distance between -502 and 0 on a number line is 502, we get the answer as follows:
|-502| = 502
Note that the absolute value of -502 can also be written as abs(-502) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -501
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