The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 250 or 250?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 250?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|250| = ?
The absolute value of 250 is the distance between 250 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 250:
Since the distance between 250 and 0 on a number line is 250, we get the answer as follows:
|250| = 250
Note that the absolute value of 250 can also be written as abs(250) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 251
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