The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 172 or 172?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 172?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|172| = ?
The absolute value of 172 is the distance between 172 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 172:
Since the distance between 172 and 0 on a number line is 172, we get the answer as follows:
|172| = 172
Note that the absolute value of 172 can also be written as abs(172) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 173
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