The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 677 or -677?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -677?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-677| = ?
The absolute value of -677 is the distance between -677 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -677:

Since the distance between -677 and 0 on a number line is 677, we get the answer as follows:
|-677| = 677
Note that the absolute value of -677 can also be written as abs(-677) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -676
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