The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 486 or 486?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 486?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|486| = ?
The absolute value of 486 is the distance between 486 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 486:
Since the distance between 486 and 0 on a number line is 486, we get the answer as follows:
|486| = 486
Note that the absolute value of 486 can also be written as abs(486) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 487
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