The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 705 or -705?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -705?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-705| = ?
The absolute value of -705 is the distance between -705 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -705:

Since the distance between -705 and 0 on a number line is 705, we get the answer as follows:
|-705| = 705
Note that the absolute value of -705 can also be written as abs(-705) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -704
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