The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 240 or 240?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 240?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|240| = ?
The absolute value of 240 is the distance between 240 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 240:
Since the distance between 240 and 0 on a number line is 240, we get the answer as follows:
|240| = 240
Note that the absolute value of 240 can also be written as abs(240) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 241
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