The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 793 or 793?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 793?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|793| = ?
The absolute value of 793 is the distance between 793 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 793:
Since the distance between 793 and 0 on a number line is 793, we get the answer as follows:
|793| = 793
Note that the absolute value of 793 can also be written as abs(793) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 794
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