The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 552 or -552?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -552?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-552| = ?
The absolute value of -552 is the distance between -552 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -552:
Since the distance between -552 and 0 on a number line is 552, we get the answer as follows:
|-552| = 552
Note that the absolute value of -552 can also be written as abs(-552) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -551
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