The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 585 or -585?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -585?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-585| = ?
The absolute value of -585 is the distance between -585 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -585:
Since the distance between -585 and 0 on a number line is 585, we get the answer as follows:
|-585| = 585
Note that the absolute value of -585 can also be written as abs(-585) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -584
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