The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 687 or 687?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 687?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|687| = ?
The absolute value of 687 is the distance between 687 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 687:
Since the distance between 687 and 0 on a number line is 687, we get the answer as follows:
|687| = 687
Note that the absolute value of 687 can also be written as abs(687) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 688
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