The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 518 or -518?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -518?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-518| = ?
The absolute value of -518 is the distance between -518 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -518:
Since the distance between -518 and 0 on a number line is 518, we get the answer as follows:
|-518| = 518
Note that the absolute value of -518 can also be written as abs(-518) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -517
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