The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 508 or 508?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 508?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|508| = ?
The absolute value of 508 is the distance between 508 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 508:
Since the distance between 508 and 0 on a number line is 508, we get the answer as follows:
|508| = 508
Note that the absolute value of 508 can also be written as abs(508) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 509
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