The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 185 or 185?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 185?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|185| = ?
The absolute value of 185 is the distance between 185 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 185:
Since the distance between 185 and 0 on a number line is 185, we get the answer as follows:
|185| = 185
Note that the absolute value of 185 can also be written as abs(185) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 186
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