The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 713 or -713?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -713?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-713| = ?
The absolute value of -713 is the distance between -713 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -713:

Since the distance between -713 and 0 on a number line is 713, we get the answer as follows:
|-713| = 713
Note that the absolute value of -713 can also be written as abs(-713) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -712
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