Question

|-17|= how do you do this

Answer 1

17

Explanation:

anything in absolute value brackets is going to be positive. Absolute value is the distance of that specific number on the number line from 0. so ex: -3 is 3 units away from 0 so therefore, the answer is 3.

Answer 2

The absolute sign means the value of the number so |-17| would equal 17 so basically just make it positive