The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 130 or 130?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 130?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|130| = ?
The absolute value of 130 is the distance between 130 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 130:
Since the distance between 130 and 0 on a number line is 130, we get the answer as follows:
|130| = 130
Note that the absolute value of 130 can also be written as abs(130) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 131
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