The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 119 or 119?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 119?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|119| = ?
The absolute value of 119 is the distance between 119 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 119:
Since the distance between 119 and 0 on a number line is 119, we get the answer as follows:
|119| = 119
Note that the absolute value of 119 can also be written as abs(119) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 120
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