The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 557 or 557?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 557?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|557| = ?
The absolute value of 557 is the distance between 557 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 557:
Since the distance between 557 and 0 on a number line is 557, we get the answer as follows:
|557| = 557
Note that the absolute value of 557 can also be written as abs(557) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 558
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