The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 566 or -566?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -566?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-566| = ?
The absolute value of -566 is the distance between -566 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -566:
Since the distance between -566 and 0 on a number line is 566, we get the answer as follows:
|-566| = 566
Note that the absolute value of -566 can also be written as abs(-566) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -565
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