The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 265 or 265?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 265?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|265| = ?
The absolute value of 265 is the distance between 265 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 265:
Since the distance between 265 and 0 on a number line is 265, we get the answer as follows:
|265| = 265
Note that the absolute value of 265 can also be written as abs(265) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 266
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