The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 408 or 408?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 408?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|408| = ?
The absolute value of 408 is the distance between 408 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 408:
Since the distance between 408 and 0 on a number line is 408, we get the answer as follows:
|408| = 408
Note that the absolute value of 408 can also be written as abs(408) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 409
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