The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 582 or 582?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 582?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|582| = ?
The absolute value of 582 is the distance between 582 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 582:
Since the distance between 582 and 0 on a number line is 582, we get the answer as follows:
|582| = 582
Note that the absolute value of 582 can also be written as abs(582) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 583
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