Answer: D) 18
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Explanation:
|-11| simplifies to 11
|-7| simplifies to 7
Whatever is inside the absolute value, you just remove the negative and that's the result of that absolute value expression. It represents the distance on a number line. So for instance -11 is 11 units from 0, which is why |-11| = 11.
Overall,
|-11| + |-7| = 11 + 7 = 18
