The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 495 or 495?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 495?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|495| = ?
The absolute value of 495 is the distance between 495 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 495:
Since the distance between 495 and 0 on a number line is 495, we get the answer as follows:
|495| = 495
Note that the absolute value of 495 can also be written as abs(495) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 496
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