The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 50 or 50?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 50?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|50| = ?
The absolute value of 50 is the distance between 50 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 50:
Since the distance between 50 and 0 on a number line is 50, we get the answer as follows:
|50| = 50
Note that the absolute value of 50 can also be written as abs(50) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 51
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