The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 23 or 23?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 23?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|23| = ?
The absolute value of 23 is the distance between 23 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 23:
Since the distance between 23 and 0 on a number line is 23, we get the answer as follows:
|23| = 23
Note that the absolute value of 23 can also be written as abs(23) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 24
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