The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 117 or 117?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 117?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|117| = ?
The absolute value of 117 is the distance between 117 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 117:
Since the distance between 117 and 0 on a number line is 117, we get the answer as follows:
|117| = 117
Note that the absolute value of 117 can also be written as abs(117) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 118
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