The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 590 or -590?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -590?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-590| = ?
The absolute value of -590 is the distance between -590 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -590:
Since the distance between -590 and 0 on a number line is 590, we get the answer as follows:
|-590| = 590
Note that the absolute value of -590 can also be written as abs(-590) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -589
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