The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 572 or -572?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -572?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-572| = ?
The absolute value of -572 is the distance between -572 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -572:
Since the distance between -572 and 0 on a number line is 572, we get the answer as follows:
|-572| = 572
Note that the absolute value of -572 can also be written as abs(-572) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -571
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