The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 261 or 261?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 261?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|261| = ?
The absolute value of 261 is the distance between 261 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 261:
Since the distance between 261 and 0 on a number line is 261, we get the answer as follows:
|261| = 261
Note that the absolute value of 261 can also be written as abs(261) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 262
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