The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 541 or -541?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -541?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-541| = ?
The absolute value of -541 is the distance between -541 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -541:
Since the distance between -541 and 0 on a number line is 541, we get the answer as follows:
|-541| = 541
Note that the absolute value of -541 can also be written as abs(-541) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -540
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