The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 286 or 286?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 286?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|286| = ?
The absolute value of 286 is the distance between 286 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 286:
Since the distance between 286 and 0 on a number line is 286, we get the answer as follows:
|286| = 286
Note that the absolute value of 286 can also be written as abs(286) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 287
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