The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 178 or 178?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 178?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|178| = ?
The absolute value of 178 is the distance between 178 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 178:
Since the distance between 178 and 0 on a number line is 178, we get the answer as follows:
|178| = 178
Note that the absolute value of 178 can also be written as abs(178) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 179
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