The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 280 or 280?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 280?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|280| = ?
The absolute value of 280 is the distance between 280 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 280:
Since the distance between 280 and 0 on a number line is 280, we get the answer as follows:
|280| = 280
Note that the absolute value of 280 can also be written as abs(280) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 281
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