The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 685 or 685?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 685?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|685| = ?
The absolute value of 685 is the distance between 685 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 685:
Since the distance between 685 and 0 on a number line is 685, we get the answer as follows:
|685| = 685
Note that the absolute value of 685 can also be written as abs(685) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 686
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