The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 650 or -650?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -650?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-650| = ?
The absolute value of -650 is the distance between -650 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -650:
Since the distance between -650 and 0 on a number line is 650, we get the answer as follows:
|-650| = 650
Note that the absolute value of -650 can also be written as abs(-650) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -649
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