The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 507 or -507?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -507?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-507| = ?
The absolute value of -507 is the distance between -507 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -507:
Since the distance between -507 and 0 on a number line is 507, we get the answer as follows:
|-507| = 507
Note that the absolute value of -507 can also be written as abs(-507) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -506
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