The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 215 or 215?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 215?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|215| = ?
The absolute value of 215 is the distance between 215 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 215:
Since the distance between 215 and 0 on a number line is 215, we get the answer as follows:
|215| = 215
Note that the absolute value of 215 can also be written as abs(215) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 216
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