The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 254 or 254?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 254?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|254| = ?
The absolute value of 254 is the distance between 254 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 254:
Since the distance between 254 and 0 on a number line is 254, we get the answer as follows:
|254| = 254
Note that the absolute value of 254 can also be written as abs(254) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 255
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