The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 645 or -645?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -645?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-645| = ?
The absolute value of -645 is the distance between -645 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -645:

Since the distance between -645 and 0 on a number line is 645, we get the answer as follows:
|-645| = 645
Note that the absolute value of -645 can also be written as abs(-645) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -644
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