The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 158 or -158?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -158?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-158| = ?
The absolute value of -158 is the distance between -158 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -158:
Since the distance between -158 and 0 on a number line is 158, we get the answer as follows:
|-158| = 158
Note that the absolute value of -158 can also be written as abs(-158) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -157
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