The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 506 or 506?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 506?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|506| = ?
The absolute value of 506 is the distance between 506 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 506:
Since the distance between 506 and 0 on a number line is 506, we get the answer as follows:
|506| = 506
Note that the absolute value of 506 can also be written as abs(506) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 507
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