The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 551 or 551?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 551?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|551| = ?
The absolute value of 551 is the distance between 551 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 551:
Since the distance between 551 and 0 on a number line is 551, we get the answer as follows:
|551| = 551
Note that the absolute value of 551 can also be written as abs(551) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 552
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