The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 52 or 52?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 52?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|52| = ?
The absolute value of 52 is the distance between 52 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 52:
Since the distance between 52 and 0 on a number line is 52, we get the answer as follows:
|52| = 52
Note that the absolute value of 52 can also be written as abs(52) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 53
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