The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 689 or 689?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 689?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|689| = ?
The absolute value of 689 is the distance between 689 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 689:
Since the distance between 689 and 0 on a number line is 689, we get the answer as follows:
|689| = 689
Note that the absolute value of 689 can also be written as abs(689) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 690
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