The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 497 or 497?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 497?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|497| = ?
The absolute value of 497 is the distance between 497 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 497:
Since the distance between 497 and 0 on a number line is 497, we get the answer as follows:
|497| = 497
Note that the absolute value of 497 can also be written as abs(497) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 498
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