The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 15 or -15?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -15?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-15| = ?
The absolute value of -15 is the distance between -15 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -15:
Since the distance between -15 and 0 on a number line is 15, we get the answer as follows:
|-15| = 15
Note that the absolute value of -15 can also be written as abs(-15) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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