The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 11 or 11?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 11?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|11| = ?
The absolute value of 11 is the distance between 11 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 11:
Since the distance between 11 and 0 on a number line is 11, we get the answer as follows:
|11| = 11
Note that the absolute value of 11 can also be written as abs(11) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 12
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