The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 137 or 137?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 137?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|137| = ?
The absolute value of 137 is the distance between 137 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 137:
Since the distance between 137 and 0 on a number line is 137, we get the answer as follows:
|137| = 137
Note that the absolute value of 137 can also be written as abs(137) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 138
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