The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 239 or 239?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 239?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|239| = ?
The absolute value of 239 is the distance between 239 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 239:
Since the distance between 239 and 0 on a number line is 239, we get the answer as follows:
|239| = 239
Note that the absolute value of 239 can also be written as abs(239) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 240
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