The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 386 or 386?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 386?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|386| = ?
The absolute value of 386 is the distance between 386 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 386:
Since the distance between 386 and 0 on a number line is 386, we get the answer as follows:
|386| = 386
Note that the absolute value of 386 can also be written as abs(386) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 387
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