The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 144 or -144?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -144?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-144| = ?
The absolute value of -144 is the distance between -144 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -144:
Since the distance between -144 and 0 on a number line is 144, we get the answer as follows:
|-144| = 144
Note that the absolute value of -144 can also be written as abs(-144) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -143
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