The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 503 or -503?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -503?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-503| = ?
The absolute value of -503 is the distance between -503 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -503:
Since the distance between -503 and 0 on a number line is 503, we get the answer as follows:
|-503| = 503
Note that the absolute value of -503 can also be written as abs(-503) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -502
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