The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 555 or -555?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -555?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-555| = ?
The absolute value of -555 is the distance between -555 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -555:
Since the distance between -555 and 0 on a number line is 555, we get the answer as follows:
|-555| = 555
Note that the absolute value of -555 can also be written as abs(-555) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -554
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