The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 287 or 287?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 287?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|287| = ?
The absolute value of 287 is the distance between 287 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 287:
Since the distance between 287 and 0 on a number line is 287, we get the answer as follows:
|287| = 287
Note that the absolute value of 287 can also be written as abs(287) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 288
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