The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 138 or 138?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 138?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|138| = ?
The absolute value of 138 is the distance between 138 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 138:
Since the distance between 138 and 0 on a number line is 138, we get the answer as follows:
|138| = 138
Note that the absolute value of 138 can also be written as abs(138) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 139
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