The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 587 or -587?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -587?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-587| = ?
The absolute value of -587 is the distance between -587 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -587:
Since the distance between -587 and 0 on a number line is 587, we get the answer as follows:
|-587| = 587
Note that the absolute value of -587 can also be written as abs(-587) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -586
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