The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 242 or 242?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 242?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|242| = ?
The absolute value of 242 is the distance between 242 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 242:
Since the distance between 242 and 0 on a number line is 242, we get the answer as follows:
|242| = 242
Note that the absolute value of 242 can also be written as abs(242) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 243
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