The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 550 or -550?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -550?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-550| = ?
The absolute value of -550 is the distance between -550 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -550:
Since the distance between -550 and 0 on a number line is 550, we get the answer as follows:
|-550| = 550
Note that the absolute value of -550 can also be written as abs(-550) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -549
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