The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 580 or -580?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -580?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-580| = ?
The absolute value of -580 is the distance between -580 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -580:
Since the distance between -580 and 0 on a number line is 580, we get the answer as follows:
|-580| = 580
Note that the absolute value of -580 can also be written as abs(-580) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -579
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