The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 525 or -525?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -525?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-525| = ?
The absolute value of -525 is the distance between -525 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -525:
Since the distance between -525 and 0 on a number line is 525, we get the answer as follows:
|-525| = 525
Note that the absolute value of -525 can also be written as abs(-525) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -524
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