The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 504 or -504?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -504?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-504| = ?
The absolute value of -504 is the distance between -504 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -504:
Since the distance between -504 and 0 on a number line is 504, we get the answer as follows:
|-504| = 504
Note that the absolute value of -504 can also be written as abs(-504) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -503
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