The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 639 or -639?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -639?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-639| = ?
The absolute value of -639 is the distance between -639 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -639:
Since the distance between -639 and 0 on a number line is 639, we get the answer as follows:
|-639| = 639
Note that the absolute value of -639 can also be written as abs(-639) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -638
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