The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 679 or -679?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -679?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-679| = ?
The absolute value of -679 is the distance between -679 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -679:
Since the distance between -679 and 0 on a number line is 679, we get the answer as follows:
|-679| = 679
Note that the absolute value of -679 can also be written as abs(-679) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -678
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