The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 18 or 18?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 18?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|18| = ?
The absolute value of 18 is the distance between 18 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 18:
Since the distance between 18 and 0 on a number line is 18, we get the answer as follows:
|18| = 18
Note that the absolute value of 18 can also be written as abs(18) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 19
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