The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 563 or -563?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -563?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-563| = ?
The absolute value of -563 is the distance between -563 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -563:
Since the distance between -563 and 0 on a number line is 563, we get the answer as follows:
|-563| = 563
Note that the absolute value of -563 can also be written as abs(-563) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -562
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