The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 31 or 31?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 31?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|31| = ?
The absolute value of 31 is the distance between 31 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 31:
Since the distance between 31 and 0 on a number line is 31, we get the answer as follows:
|31| = 31
Note that the absolute value of 31 can also be written as abs(31) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 32
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