The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 798 or 798?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 798?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|798| = ?
The absolute value of 798 is the distance between 798 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 798:
Since the distance between 798 and 0 on a number line is 798, we get the answer as follows:
|798| = 798
Note that the absolute value of 798 can also be written as abs(798) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 799
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