The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 24 or 24?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 24?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|24| = ?
The absolute value of 24 is the distance between 24 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 24:
Since the distance between 24 and 0 on a number line is 24, we get the answer as follows:
|24| = 24
Note that the absolute value of 24 can also be written as abs(24) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 25
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