The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 427 or 427?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 427?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|427| = ?
The absolute value of 427 is the distance between 427 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 427:
Since the distance between 427 and 0 on a number line is 427, we get the answer as follows:
|427| = 427
Note that the absolute value of 427 can also be written as abs(427) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 428
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