The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 47 or 47?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 47?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|47| = ?
The absolute value of 47 is the distance between 47 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 47:
Since the distance between 47 and 0 on a number line is 47, we get the answer as follows:
|47| = 47
Note that the absolute value of 47 can also be written as abs(47) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 48
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