Question

What is the absolute value of point P on the number line? A number line ranging from negative two to two, with intervals of one-fourth. The origin is labeled at zero. A point P is labeled at negative one and one-fourth.

Answer 1

The absolute value is always positive:
For example, the absolute value of -5:  | - 5 | = 5 and also the absolute value of 5 : | 5 | = 5
P =  - 1 1/4
The absolute value of point P.
| P | =   | - 1 1/4 |   =   1 1/4