The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 593 or -593?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -593?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-593| = ?
The absolute value of -593 is the distance between -593 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -593:
Since the distance between -593 and 0 on a number line is 593, we get the answer as follows:
|-593| = 593
Note that the absolute value of -593 can also be written as abs(-593) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -592
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