The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 646 or -646?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -646?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-646| = ?
The absolute value of -646 is the distance between -646 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -646:
Since the distance between -646 and 0 on a number line is 646, we get the answer as follows:
|-646| = 646
Note that the absolute value of -646 can also be written as abs(-646) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -645
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