The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 150 or -150?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -150?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-150| = ?
The absolute value of -150 is the distance between -150 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -150:
Since the distance between -150 and 0 on a number line is 150, we get the answer as follows:
|-150| = 150
Note that the absolute value of -150 can also be written as abs(-150) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -149
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