The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 596 or -596?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -596?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-596| = ?
The absolute value of -596 is the distance between -596 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -596:
Since the distance between -596 and 0 on a number line is 596, we get the answer as follows:
|-596| = 596
Note that the absolute value of -596 can also be written as abs(-596) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -595
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