It would be negative.
Absolute value is basically asking how far away something is from 0.
So say you had a number, 7. 7's distance from 0 is 7, so it would still be 7.
However, when absolute value really plays in is negative numbers. If you had -7, the distance from 0 would still be 7. It wouldn't be -7, so the absolute value of -7 would be 7.
And a negative version of a number is always less than the positive number.
Hope this helped!
