The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 73 or 73?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 73?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|73| = ?
The absolute value of 73 is the distance between 73 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 73:
Since the distance between 73 and 0 on a number line is 73, we get the answer as follows:
|73| = 73
Note that the absolute value of 73 can also be written as abs(73) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 74
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