The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 156 or 156?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 156?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|156| = ?
The absolute value of 156 is the distance between 156 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 156:
Since the distance between 156 and 0 on a number line is 156, we get the answer as follows:
|156| = 156
Note that the absolute value of 156 can also be written as abs(156) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 157
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