The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 470 or 470?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 470?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|470| = ?
The absolute value of 470 is the distance between 470 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 470:
Since the distance between 470 and 0 on a number line is 470, we get the answer as follows:
|470| = 470
Note that the absolute value of 470 can also be written as abs(470) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 471
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