The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 524 or -524?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -524?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-524| = ?
The absolute value of -524 is the distance between -524 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -524:
Since the distance between -524 and 0 on a number line is 524, we get the answer as follows:
|-524| = 524
Note that the absolute value of -524 can also be written as abs(-524) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -523
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