The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 673 or -673?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -673?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-673| = ?
The absolute value of -673 is the distance between -673 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -673:

Since the distance between -673 and 0 on a number line is 673, we get the answer as follows:
|-673| = 673
Note that the absolute value of -673 can also be written as abs(-673) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -672
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