The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 247 or 247?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 247?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|247| = ?
The absolute value of 247 is the distance between 247 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 247:
Since the distance between 247 and 0 on a number line is 247, we get the answer as follows:
|247| = 247
Note that the absolute value of 247 can also be written as abs(247) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 248
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