The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 317 or 317?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 317?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|317| = ?
The absolute value of 317 is the distance between 317 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 317:
Since the distance between 317 and 0 on a number line is 317, we get the answer as follows:
|317| = 317
Note that the absolute value of 317 can also be written as abs(317) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 318
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