The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 712 or -712?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -712?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-712| = ?
The absolute value of -712 is the distance between -712 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -712:
Since the distance between -712 and 0 on a number line is 712, we get the answer as follows:
|-712| = 712
Note that the absolute value of -712 can also be written as abs(-712) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -711
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