The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 281 or 281?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 281?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|281| = ?
The absolute value of 281 is the distance between 281 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 281:
Since the distance between 281 and 0 on a number line is 281, we get the answer as follows:
|281| = 281
Note that the absolute value of 281 can also be written as abs(281) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 282
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