The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 543 or -543?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -543?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-543| = ?
The absolute value of -543 is the distance between -543 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -543:
Since the distance between -543 and 0 on a number line is 543, we get the answer as follows:
|-543| = 543
Note that the absolute value of -543 can also be written as abs(-543) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -542
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