The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 36 or 36?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 36?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|36| = ?
The absolute value of 36 is the distance between 36 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 36:
Since the distance between 36 and 0 on a number line is 36, we get the answer as follows:
|36| = 36
Note that the absolute value of 36 can also be written as abs(36) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 37
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