The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 782 or 782?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 782?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|782| = ?
The absolute value of 782 is the distance between 782 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 782:
Since the distance between 782 and 0 on a number line is 782, we get the answer as follows:
|782| = 782
Note that the absolute value of 782 can also be written as abs(782) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 783
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