The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 533 or -533?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -533?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-533| = ?
The absolute value of -533 is the distance between -533 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -533:
Since the distance between -533 and 0 on a number line is 533, we get the answer as follows:
|-533| = 533
Note that the absolute value of -533 can also be written as abs(-533) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -532
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