The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 520 or 520?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 520?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|520| = ?
The absolute value of 520 is the distance between 520 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 520:
Since the distance between 520 and 0 on a number line is 520, we get the answer as follows:
|520| = 520
Note that the absolute value of 520 can also be written as abs(520) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 521
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