The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 159 or -159?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -159?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-159| = ?
The absolute value of -159 is the distance between -159 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -159:
Since the distance between -159 and 0 on a number line is 159, we get the answer as follows:
|-159| = 159
Note that the absolute value of -159 can also be written as abs(-159) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -158
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