The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 51 or 51?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 51?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|51| = ?
The absolute value of 51 is the distance between 51 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 51:
Since the distance between 51 and 0 on a number line is 51, we get the answer as follows:
|51| = 51
Note that the absolute value of 51 can also be written as abs(51) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 52
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