The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 635 or -635?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -635?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-635| = ?
The absolute value of -635 is the distance between -635 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -635:
Since the distance between -635 and 0 on a number line is 635, we get the answer as follows:
|-635| = 635
Note that the absolute value of -635 can also be written as abs(-635) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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