The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 585 or 585?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 585?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|585| = ?
The absolute value of 585 is the distance between 585 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 585:
Since the distance between 585 and 0 on a number line is 585, we get the answer as follows:
|585| = 585
Note that the absolute value of 585 can also be written as abs(585) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 586
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