The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 221 or 221?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 221?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|221| = ?
The absolute value of 221 is the distance between 221 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 221:
Since the distance between 221 and 0 on a number line is 221, we get the answer as follows:
|221| = 221
Note that the absolute value of 221 can also be written as abs(221) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 222
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