The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 638 or -638?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -638?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-638| = ?
The absolute value of -638 is the distance between -638 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -638:
Since the distance between -638 and 0 on a number line is 638, we get the answer as follows:
|-638| = 638
Note that the absolute value of -638 can also be written as abs(-638) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -637
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