The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 568 or -568?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -568?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-568| = ?
The absolute value of -568 is the distance between -568 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -568:
Since the distance between -568 and 0 on a number line is 568, we get the answer as follows:
|-568| = 568
Note that the absolute value of -568 can also be written as abs(-568) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -567
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