The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 578 or 578?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 578?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|578| = ?
The absolute value of 578 is the distance between 578 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 578:
Since the distance between 578 and 0 on a number line is 578, we get the answer as follows:
|578| = 578
Note that the absolute value of 578 can also be written as abs(578) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 579
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