The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 422 or 422?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 422?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|422| = ?
The absolute value of 422 is the distance between 422 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 422:
Since the distance between 422 and 0 on a number line is 422, we get the answer as follows:
|422| = 422
Note that the absolute value of 422 can also be written as abs(422) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 423
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