The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 72 or 72?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 72?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|72| = ?
The absolute value of 72 is the distance between 72 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 72:
Since the distance between 72 and 0 on a number line is 72, we get the answer as follows:
|72| = 72
Note that the absolute value of 72 can also be written as abs(72) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 73
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