The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 583 or -583?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -583?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-583| = ?
The absolute value of -583 is the distance between -583 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -583:
Since the distance between -583 and 0 on a number line is 583, we get the answer as follows:
|-583| = 583
Note that the absolute value of -583 can also be written as abs(-583) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -582
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