The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 191 or -191?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -191?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-191| = ?
The absolute value of -191 is the distance between -191 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -191:

Since the distance between -191 and 0 on a number line is 191, we get the answer as follows:
|-191| = 191
Note that the absolute value of -191 can also be written as abs(-191) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -190
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