The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 653 or 653?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 653?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|653| = ?
The absolute value of 653 is the distance between 653 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 653:
Since the distance between 653 and 0 on a number line is 653, we get the answer as follows:
|653| = 653
Note that the absolute value of 653 can also be written as abs(653) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 654
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