The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 523 or 523?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 523?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|523| = ?
The absolute value of 523 is the distance between 523 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 523:
Since the distance between 523 and 0 on a number line is 523, we get the answer as follows:
|523| = 523
Note that the absolute value of 523 can also be written as abs(523) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 524
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