The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 523 or -523?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -523?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-523| = ?
The absolute value of -523 is the distance between -523 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -523:
Since the distance between -523 and 0 on a number line is 523, we get the answer as follows:
|-523| = 523
Note that the absolute value of -523 can also be written as abs(-523) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -522
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