The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 272 or 272?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 272?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|272| = ?
The absolute value of 272 is the distance between 272 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 272:
Since the distance between 272 and 0 on a number line is 272, we get the answer as follows:
|272| = 272
Note that the absolute value of 272 can also be written as abs(272) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 273
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