The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 231 or 231?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 231?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|231| = ?
The absolute value of 231 is the distance between 231 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 231:
Since the distance between 231 and 0 on a number line is 231, we get the answer as follows:
|231| = 231
Note that the absolute value of 231 can also be written as abs(231) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 232
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