The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 116 or 116?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 116?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|116| = ?
The absolute value of 116 is the distance between 116 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 116:
Since the distance between 116 and 0 on a number line is 116, we get the answer as follows:
|116| = 116
Note that the absolute value of 116 can also be written as abs(116) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 117
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