The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 289 or 289?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 289?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|289| = ?
The absolute value of 289 is the distance between 289 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 289:
Since the distance between 289 and 0 on a number line is 289, we get the answer as follows:
|289| = 289
Note that the absolute value of 289 can also be written as abs(289) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 290
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