The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 155 or -155?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -155?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-155| = ?
The absolute value of -155 is the distance between -155 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -155:
Since the distance between -155 and 0 on a number line is 155, we get the answer as follows:
|-155| = 155
Note that the absolute value of -155 can also be written as abs(-155) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -154
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