The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 652 or -652?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -652?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-652| = ?
The absolute value of -652 is the distance between -652 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -652:
Since the distance between -652 and 0 on a number line is 652, we get the answer as follows:
|-652| = 652
Note that the absolute value of -652 can also be written as abs(-652) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -651
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