The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 141 or -141?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -141?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-141| = ?
The absolute value of -141 is the distance between -141 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -141:

Since the distance between -141 and 0 on a number line is 141, we get the answer as follows:
|-141| = 141
Note that the absolute value of -141 can also be written as abs(-141) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -140
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