The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 55 or 55?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 55?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|55| = ?
The absolute value of 55 is the distance between 55 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 55:
Since the distance between 55 and 0 on a number line is 55, we get the answer as follows:
|55| = 55
Note that the absolute value of 55 can also be written as abs(55) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 56
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