The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 536 or -536?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -536?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-536| = ?
The absolute value of -536 is the distance between -536 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -536:
Since the distance between -536 and 0 on a number line is 536, we get the answer as follows:
|-536| = 536
Note that the absolute value of -536 can also be written as abs(-536) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -535
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