The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 400 or 400?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 400?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|400| = ?
The absolute value of 400 is the distance between 400 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 400:
Since the distance between 400 and 0 on a number line is 400, we get the answer as follows:
|400| = 400
Note that the absolute value of 400 can also be written as abs(400) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 401
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