The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 71 or 71?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 71?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|71| = ?
The absolute value of 71 is the distance between 71 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 71:
Since the distance between 71 and 0 on a number line is 71, we get the answer as follows:
|71| = 71
Note that the absolute value of 71 can also be written as abs(71) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 72
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