The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 196 or 196?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 196?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|196| = ?
The absolute value of 196 is the distance between 196 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 196:
Since the distance between 196 and 0 on a number line is 196, we get the answer as follows:
|196| = 196
Note that the absolute value of 196 can also be written as abs(196) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 197
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