The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 553 or 553?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 553?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|553| = ?
The absolute value of 553 is the distance between 553 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 553:
Since the distance between 553 and 0 on a number line is 553, we get the answer as follows:
|553| = 553
Note that the absolute value of 553 can also be written as abs(553) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 554
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