The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 162 or 162?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 162?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|162| = ?
The absolute value of 162 is the distance between 162 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 162:
Since the distance between 162 and 0 on a number line is 162, we get the answer as follows:
|162| = 162
Note that the absolute value of 162 can also be written as abs(162) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 163
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