The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 279 or 279?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 279?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|279| = ?
The absolute value of 279 is the distance between 279 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 279:
Since the distance between 279 and 0 on a number line is 279, we get the answer as follows:
|279| = 279
Note that the absolute value of 279 can also be written as abs(279) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 280
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