The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 514 or -514?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -514?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-514| = ?
The absolute value of -514 is the distance between -514 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -514:
Since the distance between -514 and 0 on a number line is 514, we get the answer as follows:
|-514| = 514
Note that the absolute value of -514 can also be written as abs(-514) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -513
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