The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 149 or -149?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -149?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-149| = ?
The absolute value of -149 is the distance between -149 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -149:

Since the distance between -149 and 0 on a number line is 149, we get the answer as follows:
|-149| = 149
Note that the absolute value of -149 can also be written as abs(-149) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -148
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