The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2498 or 2498?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2498?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2498| = ?
The absolute value of 2498 is the distance between 2498 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2498:
Since the distance between 2498 and 0 on a number line is 2498, we get the answer as follows:
|2498| = 2498
Note that the absolute value of 2498 can also be written as abs(2498) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2499
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