Explain why - 11 is less than - 7, but |-11| is greater than |-7|

When looking at the - 7 and - 11 it's like looking at a timeline you see the numbers from left to right so you would look at the - 11 first and then the - 7. whenever a number has the two lines it's the absolute value so you would ignore the negative signs and it would just be the number.

Because the absolute value makes anything positive so - 11 to 11 and - 7 to 7 which would mean that 11 >7 and - 11<-7