The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 653 or -653?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -653?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-653| = ?
The absolute value of -653 is the distance between -653 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -653:
Since the distance between -653 and 0 on a number line is 653, we get the answer as follows:
|-653| = 653
Note that the absolute value of -653 can also be written as abs(-653) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -652
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