The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 511 or -511?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -511?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-511| = ?
The absolute value of -511 is the distance between -511 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -511:
Since the distance between -511 and 0 on a number line is 511, we get the answer as follows:
|-511| = 511
Note that the absolute value of -511 can also be written as abs(-511) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -510
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