The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 442 or 442?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 442?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|442| = ?
The absolute value of 442 is the distance between 442 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 442:
Since the distance between 442 and 0 on a number line is 442, we get the answer as follows:
|442| = 442
Note that the absolute value of 442 can also be written as abs(442) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 443
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