The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 503 or 503?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 503?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|503| = ?
The absolute value of 503 is the distance between 503 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 503:
Since the distance between 503 and 0 on a number line is 503, we get the answer as follows:
|503| = 503
Note that the absolute value of 503 can also be written as abs(503) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 504
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