The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 559 or 559?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 559?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|559| = ?
The absolute value of 559 is the distance between 559 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 559:
Since the distance between 559 and 0 on a number line is 559, we get the answer as follows:
|559| = 559
Note that the absolute value of 559 can also be written as abs(559) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 560
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