The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 522 or -522?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -522?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-522| = ?
The absolute value of -522 is the distance between -522 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -522:
Since the distance between -522 and 0 on a number line is 522, we get the answer as follows:
|-522| = 522
Note that the absolute value of -522 can also be written as abs(-522) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -521
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