The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 158 or 158?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 158?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|158| = ?
The absolute value of 158 is the distance between 158 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 158:
Since the distance between 158 and 0 on a number line is 158, we get the answer as follows:
|158| = 158
Note that the absolute value of 158 can also be written as abs(158) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 159
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