The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 118 or 118?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 118?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|118| = ?
The absolute value of 118 is the distance between 118 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 118:
Since the distance between 118 and 0 on a number line is 118, we get the answer as follows:
|118| = 118
Note that the absolute value of 118 can also be written as abs(118) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 119
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