The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 577 or -577?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -577?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-577| = ?
The absolute value of -577 is the distance between -577 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -577:
Since the distance between -577 and 0 on a number line is 577, we get the answer as follows:
|-577| = 577
Note that the absolute value of -577 can also be written as abs(-577) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -576
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