The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 58 or 58?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 58?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|58| = ?
The absolute value of 58 is the distance between 58 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 58:
Since the distance between 58 and 0 on a number line is 58, we get the answer as follows:
|58| = 58
Note that the absolute value of 58 can also be written as abs(58) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 59
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