The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 498 or 498?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 498?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|498| = ?
The absolute value of 498 is the distance between 498 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 498:
Since the distance between 498 and 0 on a number line is 498, we get the answer as follows:
|498| = 498
Note that the absolute value of 498 can also be written as abs(498) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 499
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