The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 6 or 6?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 6?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|6| = ?
The absolute value of 6 is the distance between 6 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 6:
Since the distance between 6 and 0 on a number line is 6, we get the answer as follows:
|6| = 6
Note that the absolute value of 6 can also be written as abs(6) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 7
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