The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 551 or -551?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -551?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-551| = ?
The absolute value of -551 is the distance between -551 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -551:
Since the distance between -551 and 0 on a number line is 551, we get the answer as follows:
|-551| = 551
Note that the absolute value of -551 can also be written as abs(-551) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -550
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