The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 142 or 142?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 142?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|142| = ?
The absolute value of 142 is the distance between 142 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 142:
Since the distance between 142 and 0 on a number line is 142, we get the answer as follows:
|142| = 142
Note that the absolute value of 142 can also be written as abs(142) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 143
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