The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 251 or 251?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 251?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|251| = ?
The absolute value of 251 is the distance between 251 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 251:
Since the distance between 251 and 0 on a number line is 251, we get the answer as follows:
|251| = 251
Note that the absolute value of 251 can also be written as abs(251) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 252
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