The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 40 or 40?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 40?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|40| = ?
The absolute value of 40 is the distance between 40 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 40:
Since the distance between 40 and 0 on a number line is 40, we get the answer as follows:
|40| = 40
Note that the absolute value of 40 can also be written as abs(40) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 41
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