The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 208 or 208?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 208?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|208| = ?
The absolute value of 208 is the distance between 208 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 208:
Since the distance between 208 and 0 on a number line is 208, we get the answer as follows:
|208| = 208
Note that the absolute value of 208 can also be written as abs(208) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 209
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