The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 515 or -515?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -515?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-515| = ?
The absolute value of -515 is the distance between -515 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -515:
Since the distance between -515 and 0 on a number line is 515, we get the answer as follows:
|-515| = 515
Note that the absolute value of -515 can also be written as abs(-515) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -514
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