What the question asks is to find the addition of two absolute values:
| -14| + | 10| = ?
We need to recall that the absolute value of a number is always the positive of that number (or magnitude) because it is associated with the distance from the number to the origin (zero) on the number line, and distances are always positive quantities.
Therefore we have:
|-14| = 14
and
}10| = 10
So we can proceed to add :
14 + 10 = 24
Therefore
| -14| + |10| = 24