The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 125 or 125?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 125?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|125| = ?
The absolute value of 125 is the distance between 125 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 125:
Since the distance between 125 and 0 on a number line is 125, we get the answer as follows:
|125| = 125
Note that the absolute value of 125 can also be written as abs(125) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 126
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