The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 500 or 500?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 500?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|500| = ?
The absolute value of 500 is the distance between 500 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 500:
Since the distance between 500 and 0 on a number line is 500, we get the answer as follows:
|500| = 500
Note that the absolute value of 500 can also be written as abs(500) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 501
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