The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 159 or 159?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 159?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|159| = ?
The absolute value of 159 is the distance between 159 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 159:
Since the distance between 159 and 0 on a number line is 159, we get the answer as follows:
|159| = 159
Note that the absolute value of 159 can also be written as abs(159) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 160
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