The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 820 or 820?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 820?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|820| = ?
The absolute value of 820 is the distance between 820 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 820:
Since the distance between 820 and 0 on a number line is 820, we get the answer as follows:
|820| = 820
Note that the absolute value of 820 can also be written as abs(820) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 821
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