The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 176 or 176?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 176?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|176| = ?
The absolute value of 176 is the distance between 176 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 176:
Since the distance between 176 and 0 on a number line is 176, we get the answer as follows:
|176| = 176
Note that the absolute value of 176 can also be written as abs(176) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 177
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