The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 30 or 30?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 30?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|30| = ?
The absolute value of 30 is the distance between 30 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 30:
Since the distance between 30 and 0 on a number line is 30, we get the answer as follows:
|30| = 30
Note that the absolute value of 30 can also be written as abs(30) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 31
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