The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 680 or -680?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -680?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-680| = ?
The absolute value of -680 is the distance between -680 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -680:
Since the distance between -680 and 0 on a number line is 680, we get the answer as follows:
|-680| = 680
Note that the absolute value of -680 can also be written as abs(-680) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -679
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