The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 641 or -641?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -641?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-641| = ?
The absolute value of -641 is the distance between -641 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -641:
Since the distance between -641 and 0 on a number line is 641, we get the answer as follows:
|-641| = 641
Note that the absolute value of -641 can also be written as abs(-641) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -640
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