The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 588 or -588?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -588?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-588| = ?
The absolute value of -588 is the distance between -588 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -588:
Since the distance between -588 and 0 on a number line is 588, we get the answer as follows:
|-588| = 588
Note that the absolute value of -588 can also be written as abs(-588) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -587
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