The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 547 or -547?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -547?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-547| = ?
The absolute value of -547 is the distance between -547 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -547:
Since the distance between -547 and 0 on a number line is 547, we get the answer as follows:
|-547| = 547
Note that the absolute value of -547 can also be written as abs(-547) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -546
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