The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 790 or 790?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 790?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|790| = ?
The absolute value of 790 is the distance between 790 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 790:
Since the distance between 790 and 0 on a number line is 790, we get the answer as follows:
|790| = 790
Note that the absolute value of 790 can also be written as abs(790) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 791
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