| | The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 229 or 229? 
 When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 229?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
 
 |229| = ?
 
 The absolute value of 229 is the distance between 229 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 229:
 
 
  
 Since the distance between 229 and 0 on a number line is 229, we get the answer as follows:
 
 |229| = 229
 
 
 Note that the absolute value of 229 can also be written as abs(229) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
 
 Absolute Value of 230
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