The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 10 or 10?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 10?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|10| = ?
The absolute value of 10 is the distance between 10 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 10:
Since the distance between 10 and 0 on a number line is 10, we get the answer as follows:
|10| = 10
Note that the absolute value of 10 can also be written as abs(10) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 11
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