The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 637 or 637?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 637?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|637| = ?
The absolute value of 637 is the distance between 637 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 637:
Since the distance between 637 and 0 on a number line is 637, we get the answer as follows:
|637| = 637
Note that the absolute value of 637 can also be written as abs(637) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 638
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