The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 686 or 686?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 686?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|686| = ?
The absolute value of 686 is the distance between 686 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 686:
Since the distance between 686 and 0 on a number line is 686, we get the answer as follows:
|686| = 686
Note that the absolute value of 686 can also be written as abs(686) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 687
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