The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 591 or -591?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -591?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-591| = ?
The absolute value of -591 is the distance between -591 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -591:
Since the distance between -591 and 0 on a number line is 591, we get the answer as follows:
|-591| = 591
Note that the absolute value of -591 can also be written as abs(-591) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -590
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