The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 706 or -706?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -706?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-706| = ?
The absolute value of -706 is the distance between -706 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -706:
Since the distance between -706 and 0 on a number line is 706, we get the answer as follows:
|-706| = 706
Note that the absolute value of -706 can also be written as abs(-706) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -705
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