The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 586 or 586?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 586?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|586| = ?
The absolute value of 586 is the distance between 586 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 586:
Since the distance between 586 and 0 on a number line is 586, we get the answer as follows:
|586| = 586
Note that the absolute value of 586 can also be written as abs(586) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 587
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