The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 586 or -586?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -586?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-586| = ?
The absolute value of -586 is the distance between -586 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -586:
Since the distance between -586 and 0 on a number line is 586, we get the answer as follows:
|-586| = 586
Note that the absolute value of -586 can also be written as abs(-586) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -585
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