The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 561 or -561?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -561?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-561| = ?
The absolute value of -561 is the distance between -561 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -561:
Since the distance between -561 and 0 on a number line is 561, we get the answer as follows:
|-561| = 561
Note that the absolute value of -561 can also be written as abs(-561) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -560
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