The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 37 or 37?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 37?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|37| = ?
The absolute value of 37 is the distance between 37 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 37:
Since the distance between 37 and 0 on a number line is 37, we get the answer as follows:
|37| = 37
Note that the absolute value of 37 can also be written as abs(37) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 38
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