The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 205 or 205?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 205?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|205| = ?
The absolute value of 205 is the distance between 205 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 205:
Since the distance between 205 and 0 on a number line is 205, we get the answer as follows:
|205| = 205
Note that the absolute value of 205 can also be written as abs(205) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 206
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