The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 558 or 558?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 558?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|558| = ?
The absolute value of 558 is the distance between 558 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 558:
Since the distance between 558 and 0 on a number line is 558, we get the answer as follows:
|558| = 558
Note that the absolute value of 558 can also be written as abs(558) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 559
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