The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 823 or 823?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 823?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|823| = ?
The absolute value of 823 is the distance between 823 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 823:
Since the distance between 823 and 0 on a number line is 823, we get the answer as follows:
|823| = 823
Note that the absolute value of 823 can also be written as abs(823) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 824
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