The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 258 or 258?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 258?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|258| = ?
The absolute value of 258 is the distance between 258 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 258:
Since the distance between 258 and 0 on a number line is 258, we get the answer as follows:
|258| = 258
Note that the absolute value of 258 can also be written as abs(258) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 259
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