The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 651 or -651?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -651?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-651| = ?
The absolute value of -651 is the distance between -651 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -651:
Since the distance between -651 and 0 on a number line is 651, we get the answer as follows:
|-651| = 651
Note that the absolute value of -651 can also be written as abs(-651) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -650
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