The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 25 or 25?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 25?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|25| = ?
The absolute value of 25 is the distance between 25 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 25:
Since the distance between 25 and 0 on a number line is 25, we get the answer as follows:
|25| = 25
Note that the absolute value of 25 can also be written as abs(25) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 26
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