The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 409 or 409?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 409?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|409| = ?
The absolute value of 409 is the distance between 409 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 409:
Since the distance between 409 and 0 on a number line is 409, we get the answer as follows:
|409| = 409
Note that the absolute value of 409 can also be written as abs(409) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 410
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