The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 545 or -545?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -545?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-545| = ?
The absolute value of -545 is the distance between -545 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -545:
Since the distance between -545 and 0 on a number line is 545, we get the answer as follows:
|-545| = 545
Note that the absolute value of -545 can also be written as abs(-545) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -544
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