The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 54 or 54?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 54?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|54| = ?
The absolute value of 54 is the distance between 54 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 54:
Since the distance between 54 and 0 on a number line is 54, we get the answer as follows:
|54| = 54
Note that the absolute value of 54 can also be written as abs(54) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 55
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