The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 53 or 53?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 53?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|53| = ?
The absolute value of 53 is the distance between 53 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 53:
Since the distance between 53 and 0 on a number line is 53, we get the answer as follows:
|53| = 53
Note that the absolute value of 53 can also be written as abs(53) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 54
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