The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 120 or 120?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 120?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|120| = ?
The absolute value of 120 is the distance between 120 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 120:
Since the distance between 120 and 0 on a number line is 120, we get the answer as follows:
|120| = 120
Note that the absolute value of 120 can also be written as abs(120) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 121
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