The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 283 or 283?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 283?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|283| = ?
The absolute value of 283 is the distance between 283 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 283:
Since the distance between 283 and 0 on a number line is 283, we get the answer as follows:
|283| = 283
Note that the absolute value of 283 can also be written as abs(283) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 284
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