The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 550 or 550?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 550?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|550| = ?
The absolute value of 550 is the distance between 550 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 550:
Since the distance between 550 and 0 on a number line is 550, we get the answer as follows:
|550| = 550
Note that the absolute value of 550 can also be written as abs(550) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 551
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