The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 592 or -592?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -592?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-592| = ?
The absolute value of -592 is the distance between -592 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -592:
Since the distance between -592 and 0 on a number line is 592, we get the answer as follows:
|-592| = 592
Note that the absolute value of -592 can also be written as abs(-592) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -591
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