The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 56 or 56?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 56?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|56| = ?
The absolute value of 56 is the distance between 56 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 56:
Since the distance between 56 and 0 on a number line is 56, we get the answer as follows:
|56| = 56
Note that the absolute value of 56 can also be written as abs(56) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 57
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