The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 406 or 406?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 406?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|406| = ?
The absolute value of 406 is the distance between 406 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 406:
Since the distance between 406 and 0 on a number line is 406, we get the answer as follows:
|406| = 406
Note that the absolute value of 406 can also be written as abs(406) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 407
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