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What is the absolute value of 12?


The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 12 or 12?

When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 12?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:

|12| = ?

The absolute value of 12 is the distance between 12 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 12:



Since the distance between 12 and 0 on a number line is 12, we get the answer as follows:

|12| = 12


Note that the absolute value of 12 can also be written as abs(12) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.

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