The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 492 or 492?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 492?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|492| = ?
The absolute value of 492 is the distance between 492 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 492:
Since the distance between 492 and 0 on a number line is 492, we get the answer as follows:
|492| = 492
Note that the absolute value of 492 can also be written as abs(492) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 493
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