The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 26 or 26?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 26?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|26| = ?
The absolute value of 26 is the distance between 26 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 26:
Since the distance between 26 and 0 on a number line is 26, we get the answer as follows:
|26| = 26
Note that the absolute value of 26 can also be written as abs(26) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 27
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