The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 514 or 514?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 514?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|514| = ?
The absolute value of 514 is the distance between 514 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 514:
Since the distance between 514 and 0 on a number line is 514, we get the answer as follows:
|514| = 514
Note that the absolute value of 514 can also be written as abs(514) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 515
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