The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 157 or -157?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -157?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-157| = ?
The absolute value of -157 is the distance between -157 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -157:
Since the distance between -157 and 0 on a number line is 157, we get the answer as follows:
|-157| = 157
Note that the absolute value of -157 can also be written as abs(-157) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -156
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