The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 5 or 5?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 5?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|5| = ?
The absolute value of 5 is the distance between 5 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 5:
Since the distance between 5 and 0 on a number line is 5, we get the answer as follows:
|5| = 5
Note that the absolute value of 5 can also be written as abs(5) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 6
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