The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 488 or 488?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 488?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|488| = ?
The absolute value of 488 is the distance between 488 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 488:
Since the distance between 488 and 0 on a number line is 488, we get the answer as follows:
|488| = 488
Note that the absolute value of 488 can also be written as abs(488) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 489
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