The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 115 or 115?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 115?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|115| = ?
The absolute value of 115 is the distance between 115 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 115:
Since the distance between 115 and 0 on a number line is 115, we get the answer as follows:
|115| = 115
Note that the absolute value of 115 can also be written as abs(115) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 116
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