The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 697 or -697?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -697?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-697| = ?
The absolute value of -697 is the distance between -697 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -697:
Since the distance between -697 and 0 on a number line is 697, we get the answer as follows:
|-697| = 697
Note that the absolute value of -697 can also be written as abs(-697) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -696
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