The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 540 or -540?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -540?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-540| = ?
The absolute value of -540 is the distance between -540 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -540:
Since the distance between -540 and 0 on a number line is 540, we get the answer as follows:
|-540| = 540
Note that the absolute value of -540 can also be written as abs(-540) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -539
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