The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 708 or -708?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -708?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-708| = ?
The absolute value of -708 is the distance between -708 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -708:
Since the distance between -708 and 0 on a number line is 708, we get the answer as follows:
|-708| = 708
Note that the absolute value of -708 can also be written as abs(-708) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -707
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