The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 509 or 509?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 509?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|509| = ?
The absolute value of 509 is the distance between 509 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 509:
Since the distance between 509 and 0 on a number line is 509, we get the answer as follows:
|509| = 509
Note that the absolute value of 509 can also be written as abs(509) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 510
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