The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 146 or -146?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -146?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-146| = ?
The absolute value of -146 is the distance between -146 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -146:
Since the distance between -146 and 0 on a number line is 146, we get the answer as follows:
|-146| = 146
Note that the absolute value of -146 can also be written as abs(-146) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -145
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