The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 696 or -696?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -696?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-696| = ?
The absolute value of -696 is the distance between -696 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -696:

Since the distance between -696 and 0 on a number line is 696, we get the answer as follows:
|-696| = 696
Note that the absolute value of -696 can also be written as abs(-696) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -695
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