The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 230 or 230?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 230?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|230| = ?
The absolute value of 230 is the distance between 230 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 230:
Since the distance between 230 and 0 on a number line is 230, we get the answer as follows:
|230| = 230
Note that the absolute value of 230 can also be written as abs(230) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 231
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