The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 27 or 27?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 27?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|27| = ?
The absolute value of 27 is the distance between 27 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 27:
Since the distance between 27 and 0 on a number line is 27, we get the answer as follows:
|27| = 27
Note that the absolute value of 27 can also be written as abs(27) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 28
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