Additive inverse of numbers ?

Question

What does a number like this mean? |-2| ?

If a number is in the straight line character, what does that mean? How do you find the additive inverse? Is it an understood normal number? And waht would the AI of -|-7| be?

Answer 1

its reallllll easy it means |-2| = 2, |-6| = 6, |-3| = 3.....Got it  

Answer 2

|x| = absolute value of x, drop the negative sign if any

The additive inverse of -|-7| = additive inverse of -7 = 7

The additive inverse is the number you add to a given number to equal 0, which is the same as 0 - the number.