The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 597 or -597?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -597?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-597| = ?
The absolute value of -597 is the distance between -597 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -597:
Since the distance between -597 and 0 on a number line is 597, we get the answer as follows:
|-597| = 597
Note that the absolute value of -597 can also be written as abs(-597) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -596
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