The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 637 or -637?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -637?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-637| = ?
The absolute value of -637 is the distance between -637 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -637:
Since the distance between -637 and 0 on a number line is 637, we get the answer as follows:
|-637| = 637
Note that the absolute value of -637 can also be written as abs(-637) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -636
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