The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 218 or 218?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 218?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|218| = ?
The absolute value of 218 is the distance between 218 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 218:
Since the distance between 218 and 0 on a number line is 218, we get the answer as follows:
|218| = 218
Note that the absolute value of 218 can also be written as abs(218) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 219
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