The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 154 or -154?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -154?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-154| = ?
The absolute value of -154 is the distance between -154 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -154:
Since the distance between -154 and 0 on a number line is 154, we get the answer as follows:
|-154| = 154
Note that the absolute value of -154 can also be written as abs(-154) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -153
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