The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 100 or 100?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 100?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|100| = ?
The absolute value of 100 is the distance between 100 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 100:
Since the distance between 100 and 0 on a number line is 100, we get the answer as follows:
|100| = 100
Note that the absolute value of 100 can also be written as abs(100) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 101
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