The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 517 or -517?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -517?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-517| = ?
The absolute value of -517 is the distance between -517 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -517:
Since the distance between -517 and 0 on a number line is 517, we get the answer as follows:
|-517| = 517
Note that the absolute value of -517 can also be written as abs(-517) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -516
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