The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 479 or 479?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 479?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|479| = ?
The absolute value of 479 is the distance between 479 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 479:
Since the distance between 479 and 0 on a number line is 479, we get the answer as follows:
|479| = 479
Note that the absolute value of 479 can also be written as abs(479) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 480
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