The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 589 or 589?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 589?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|589| = ?
The absolute value of 589 is the distance between 589 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 589:
Since the distance between 589 and 0 on a number line is 589, we get the answer as follows:
|589| = 589
Note that the absolute value of 589 can also be written as abs(589) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 590
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