The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 689 or -689?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -689?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-689| = ?
The absolute value of -689 is the distance between -689 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -689:
Since the distance between -689 and 0 on a number line is 689, we get the answer as follows:
|-689| = 689
Note that the absolute value of -689 can also be written as abs(-689) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -688
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
