The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 530 or -530?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -530?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-530| = ?
The absolute value of -530 is the distance between -530 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -530:
Since the distance between -530 and 0 on a number line is 530, we get the answer as follows:
|-530| = 530
Note that the absolute value of -530 can also be written as abs(-530) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -529
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