The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 565 or -565?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -565?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-565| = ?
The absolute value of -565 is the distance between -565 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -565:
Since the distance between -565 and 0 on a number line is 565, we get the answer as follows:
|-565| = 565
Note that the absolute value of -565 can also be written as abs(-565) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -564
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