The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 387 or 387?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 387?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|387| = ?
The absolute value of 387 is the distance between 387 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 387:
Since the distance between 387 and 0 on a number line is 387, we get the answer as follows:
|387| = 387
Note that the absolute value of 387 can also be written as abs(387) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 388
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