The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 690 or -690?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -690?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-690| = ?
The absolute value of -690 is the distance between -690 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -690:
Since the distance between -690 and 0 on a number line is 690, we get the answer as follows:
|-690| = 690
Note that the absolute value of -690 can also be written as abs(-690) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -689
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