The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 682 or -682?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -682?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-682| = ?
The absolute value of -682 is the distance between -682 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -682:
Since the distance between -682 and 0 on a number line is 682, we get the answer as follows:
|-682| = 682
Note that the absolute value of -682 can also be written as abs(-682) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -681
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