The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 161 or 161?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 161?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|161| = ?
The absolute value of 161 is the distance between 161 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 161:
Since the distance between 161 and 0 on a number line is 161, we get the answer as follows:
|161| = 161
Note that the absolute value of 161 can also be written as abs(161) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 162
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