The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 557 or -557?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -557?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-557| = ?
The absolute value of -557 is the distance between -557 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -557:
Since the distance between -557 and 0 on a number line is 557, we get the answer as follows:
|-557| = 557
Note that the absolute value of -557 can also be written as abs(-557) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -556
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