The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 236 or 236?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 236?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|236| = ?
The absolute value of 236 is the distance between 236 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 236:
Since the distance between 236 and 0 on a number line is 236, we get the answer as follows:
|236| = 236
Note that the absolute value of 236 can also be written as abs(236) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 237
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