The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 595 or -595?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -595?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-595| = ?
The absolute value of -595 is the distance between -595 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -595:
Since the distance between -595 and 0 on a number line is 595, we get the answer as follows:
|-595| = 595
Note that the absolute value of -595 can also be written as abs(-595) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -594
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