The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 648 or -648?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -648?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-648| = ?
The absolute value of -648 is the distance between -648 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -648:
Since the distance between -648 and 0 on a number line is 648, we get the answer as follows:
|-648| = 648
Note that the absolute value of -648 can also be written as abs(-648) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -647
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