The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 583 or 583?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 583?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|583| = ?
The absolute value of 583 is the distance between 583 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 583:
Since the distance between 583 and 0 on a number line is 583, we get the answer as follows:
|583| = 583
Note that the absolute value of 583 can also be written as abs(583) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 584
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