The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 293 or 293?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 293?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|293| = ?
The absolute value of 293 is the distance between 293 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 293:

Since the distance between 293 and 0 on a number line is 293, we get the answer as follows:
|293| = 293
Note that the absolute value of 293 can also be written as abs(293) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 294
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