The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 584 or -584?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -584?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-584| = ?
The absolute value of -584 is the distance between -584 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -584:
Since the distance between -584 and 0 on a number line is 584, we get the answer as follows:
|-584| = 584
Note that the absolute value of -584 can also be written as abs(-584) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -583
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