The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 636 or -636?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -636?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-636| = ?
The absolute value of -636 is the distance between -636 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -636:
Since the distance between -636 and 0 on a number line is 636, we get the answer as follows:
|-636| = 636
Note that the absolute value of -636 can also be written as abs(-636) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -635
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