The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 515 or 515?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 515?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|515| = ?
The absolute value of 515 is the distance between 515 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 515:
Since the distance between 515 and 0 on a number line is 515, we get the answer as follows:
|515| = 515
Note that the absolute value of 515 can also be written as abs(515) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 516
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