The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 39 or 39?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 39?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|39| = ?
The absolute value of 39 is the distance between 39 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 39:
Since the distance between 39 and 0 on a number line is 39, we get the answer as follows:
|39| = 39
Note that the absolute value of 39 can also be written as abs(39) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 40
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