The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 687 or -687?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -687?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-687| = ?
The absolute value of -687 is the distance between -687 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -687:
Since the distance between -687 and 0 on a number line is 687, we get the answer as follows:
|-687| = 687
Note that the absolute value of -687 can also be written as abs(-687) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -686
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