The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 714 or -714?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -714?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-714| = ?
The absolute value of -714 is the distance between -714 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -714:
Since the distance between -714 and 0 on a number line is 714, we get the answer as follows:
|-714| = 714
Note that the absolute value of -714 can also be written as abs(-714) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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