The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 700 or -700?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -700?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-700| = ?
The absolute value of -700 is the distance between -700 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -700:
Since the distance between -700 and 0 on a number line is 700, we get the answer as follows:
|-700| = 700
Note that the absolute value of -700 can also be written as abs(-700) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -699
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