The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 679 or 679?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 679?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|679| = ?
The absolute value of 679 is the distance between 679 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 679:
Since the distance between 679 and 0 on a number line is 679, we get the answer as follows:
|679| = 679
Note that the absolute value of 679 can also be written as abs(679) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 680
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