The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 284 or 284?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 284?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|284| = ?
The absolute value of 284 is the distance between 284 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 284:
Since the distance between 284 and 0 on a number line is 284, we get the answer as follows:
|284| = 284
Note that the absolute value of 284 can also be written as abs(284) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 285
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