The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 521 or 521?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 521?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|521| = ?
The absolute value of 521 is the distance between 521 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 521:
Since the distance between 521 and 0 on a number line is 521, we get the answer as follows:
|521| = 521
Note that the absolute value of 521 can also be written as abs(521) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 522
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