The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 579 or -579?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -579?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-579| = ?
The absolute value of -579 is the distance between -579 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -579:
Since the distance between -579 and 0 on a number line is 579, we get the answer as follows:
|-579| = 579
Note that the absolute value of -579 can also be written as abs(-579) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -578
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