The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 581 or -581?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -581?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-581| = ?
The absolute value of -581 is the distance between -581 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -581:
Since the distance between -581 and 0 on a number line is 581, we get the answer as follows:
|-581| = 581
Note that the absolute value of -581 can also be written as abs(-581) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -580
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