The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 115 or -115?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -115?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-115| = ?
The absolute value of -115 is the distance between -115 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -115:
Since the distance between -115 and 0 on a number line is 115, we get the answer as follows:
|-115| = 115
Note that the absolute value of -115 can also be written as abs(-115) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -114
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