The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 821 or 821?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 821?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|821| = ?
The absolute value of 821 is the distance between 821 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 821:
Since the distance between 821 and 0 on a number line is 821, we get the answer as follows:
|821| = 821
Note that the absolute value of 821 can also be written as abs(821) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 822
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