The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 157 or 157?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 157?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|157| = ?
The absolute value of 157 is the distance between 157 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 157:
Since the distance between 157 and 0 on a number line is 157, we get the answer as follows:
|157| = 157
Note that the absolute value of 157 can also be written as abs(157) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 158
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