The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 499 or 499?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 499?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|499| = ?
The absolute value of 499 is the distance between 499 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 499:
Since the distance between 499 and 0 on a number line is 499, we get the answer as follows:
|499| = 499
Note that the absolute value of 499 can also be written as abs(499) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 500
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