The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 681 or -681?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -681?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-681| = ?
The absolute value of -681 is the distance between -681 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -681:

Since the distance between -681 and 0 on a number line is 681, we get the answer as follows:
|-681| = 681
Note that the absolute value of -681 can also be written as abs(-681) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -680
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