The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 521 or -521?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -521?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-521| = ?
The absolute value of -521 is the distance between -521 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -521:
Since the distance between -521 and 0 on a number line is 521, we get the answer as follows:
|-521| = 521
Note that the absolute value of -521 can also be written as abs(-521) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -520
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