The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 589 or -589?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -589?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-589| = ?
The absolute value of -589 is the distance between -589 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -589:
Since the distance between -589 and 0 on a number line is 589, we get the answer as follows:
|-589| = 589
Note that the absolute value of -589 can also be written as abs(-589) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -588
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