The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 639 or 639?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 639?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|639| = ?
The absolute value of 639 is the distance between 639 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 639:
Since the distance between 639 and 0 on a number line is 639, we get the answer as follows:
|639| = 639
Note that the absolute value of 639 can also be written as abs(639) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 640
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