The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 278 or 278?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 278?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|278| = ?
The absolute value of 278 is the distance between 278 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 278:
Since the distance between 278 and 0 on a number line is 278, we get the answer as follows:
|278| = 278
Note that the absolute value of 278 can also be written as abs(278) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 279
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