The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 179 or 179?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 179?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|179| = ?
The absolute value of 179 is the distance between 179 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 179:
Since the distance between 179 and 0 on a number line is 179, we get the answer as follows:
|179| = 179
Note that the absolute value of 179 can also be written as abs(179) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 180
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