The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 659 or -659?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -659?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-659| = ?
The absolute value of -659 is the distance between -659 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -659:
Since the distance between -659 and 0 on a number line is 659, we get the answer as follows:
|-659| = 659
Note that the absolute value of -659 can also be written as abs(-659) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -658
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