The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 152 or -152?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -152?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-152| = ?
The absolute value of -152 is the distance between -152 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -152:
Since the distance between -152 and 0 on a number line is 152, we get the answer as follows:
|-152| = 152
Note that the absolute value of -152 can also be written as abs(-152) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -151
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