The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 556 or 556?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 556?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|556| = ?
The absolute value of 556 is the distance between 556 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 556:
Since the distance between 556 and 0 on a number line is 556, we get the answer as follows:
|556| = 556
Note that the absolute value of 556 can also be written as abs(556) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 557
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