The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 288 or 288?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 288?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|288| = ?
The absolute value of 288 is the distance between 288 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 288:
Since the distance between 288 and 0 on a number line is 288, we get the answer as follows:
|288| = 288
Note that the absolute value of 288 can also be written as abs(288) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 289
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