The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 526 or -526?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -526?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-526| = ?
The absolute value of -526 is the distance between -526 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -526:
Since the distance between -526 and 0 on a number line is 526, we get the answer as follows:
|-526| = 526
Note that the absolute value of -526 can also be written as abs(-526) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -525
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