The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 579 or 579?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 579?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|579| = ?
The absolute value of 579 is the distance between 579 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 579:
Since the distance between 579 and 0 on a number line is 579, we get the answer as follows:
|579| = 579
Note that the absolute value of 579 can also be written as abs(579) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 580
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