The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 527 or -527?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -527?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-527| = ?
The absolute value of -527 is the distance between -527 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -527:
Since the distance between -527 and 0 on a number line is 527, we get the answer as follows:
|-527| = 527
Note that the absolute value of -527 can also be written as abs(-527) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -526
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