The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 477 or 477?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 477?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|477| = ?
The absolute value of 477 is the distance between 477 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 477:
Since the distance between 477 and 0 on a number line is 477, we get the answer as follows:
|477| = 477
Note that the absolute value of 477 can also be written as abs(477) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 478
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