The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 683 or -683?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -683?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-683| = ?
The absolute value of -683 is the distance between -683 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -683:
Since the distance between -683 and 0 on a number line is 683, we get the answer as follows:
|-683| = 683
Note that the absolute value of -683 can also be written as abs(-683) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -682
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