The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 32 or 32?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 32?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|32| = ?
The absolute value of 32 is the distance between 32 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 32:
Since the distance between 32 and 0 on a number line is 32, we get the answer as follows:
|32| = 32
Note that the absolute value of 32 can also be written as abs(32) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 33
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