The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 519 or -519?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -519?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-519| = ?
The absolute value of -519 is the distance between -519 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -519:
Since the distance between -519 and 0 on a number line is 519, we get the answer as follows:
|-519| = 519
Note that the absolute value of -519 can also be written as abs(-519) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -518
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