The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 139 or 139?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 139?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|139| = ?
The absolute value of 139 is the distance between 139 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 139:
Since the distance between 139 and 0 on a number line is 139, we get the answer as follows:
|139| = 139
Note that the absolute value of 139 can also be written as abs(139) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 140
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