The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 147 or 147?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 147?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|147| = ?
The absolute value of 147 is the distance between 147 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 147:
Since the distance between 147 and 0 on a number line is 147, we get the answer as follows:
|147| = 147
Note that the absolute value of 147 can also be written as abs(147) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 148
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