The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 661 or -661?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -661?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-661| = ?
The absolute value of -661 is the distance between -661 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -661:
Since the distance between -661 and 0 on a number line is 661, we get the answer as follows:
|-661| = 661
Note that the absolute value of -661 can also be written as abs(-661) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -660
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