The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 718 or -718?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -718?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-718| = ?
The absolute value of -718 is the distance between -718 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -718:
Since the distance between -718 and 0 on a number line is 718, we get the answer as follows:
|-718| = 718
Note that the absolute value of -718 can also be written as abs(-718) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -717
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