The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 238 or 238?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 238?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|238| = ?
The absolute value of 238 is the distance between 238 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 238:
Since the distance between 238 and 0 on a number line is 238, we get the answer as follows:
|238| = 238
Note that the absolute value of 238 can also be written as abs(238) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 239
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