The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 7 or 7?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 7?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|7| = ?
The absolute value of 7 is the distance between 7 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 7:
Since the distance between 7 and 0 on a number line is 7, we get the answer as follows:
|7| = 7
Note that the absolute value of 7 can also be written as abs(7) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8
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