The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 717 or -717?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -717?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-717| = ?
The absolute value of -717 is the distance between -717 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -717:
Since the distance between -717 and 0 on a number line is 717, we get the answer as follows:
|-717| = 717
Note that the absolute value of -717 can also be written as abs(-717) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -716
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