The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 273 or 273?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 273?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|273| = ?
The absolute value of 273 is the distance between 273 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 273:
Since the distance between 273 and 0 on a number line is 273, we get the answer as follows:
|273| = 273
Note that the absolute value of 273 can also be written as abs(273) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 274
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