The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 716 or -716?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -716?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-716| = ?
The absolute value of -716 is the distance between -716 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -716:
Since the distance between -716 and 0 on a number line is 716, we get the answer as follows:
|-716| = 716
Note that the absolute value of -716 can also be written as abs(-716) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -715
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