The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 797 or 797?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 797?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|797| = ?
The absolute value of 797 is the distance between 797 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 797:
Since the distance between 797 and 0 on a number line is 797, we get the answer as follows:
|797| = 797
Note that the absolute value of 797 can also be written as abs(797) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 798
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