The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 558 or -558?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -558?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-558| = ?
The absolute value of -558 is the distance between -558 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -558:
Since the distance between -558 and 0 on a number line is 558, we get the answer as follows:
|-558| = 558
Note that the absolute value of -558 can also be written as abs(-558) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -557
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