The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 657 or -657?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -657?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-657| = ?
The absolute value of -657 is the distance between -657 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -657:
Since the distance between -657 and 0 on a number line is 657, we get the answer as follows:
|-657| = 657
Note that the absolute value of -657 can also be written as abs(-657) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -656
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