The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 140 or 140?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 140?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|140| = ?
The absolute value of 140 is the distance between 140 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 140:
Since the distance between 140 and 0 on a number line is 140, we get the answer as follows:
|140| = 140
Note that the absolute value of 140 can also be written as abs(140) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 141
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