The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 385 or 385?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 385?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|385| = ?
The absolute value of 385 is the distance between 385 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 385:
Since the distance between 385 and 0 on a number line is 385, we get the answer as follows:
|385| = 385
Note that the absolute value of 385 can also be written as abs(385) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 386
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