The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 678 or -678?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -678?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-678| = ?
The absolute value of -678 is the distance between -678 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -678:
Since the distance between -678 and 0 on a number line is 678, we get the answer as follows:
|-678| = 678
Note that the absolute value of -678 can also be written as abs(-678) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -677
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