The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 839 or 839?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 839?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|839| = ?
The absolute value of 839 is the distance between 839 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 839:
Since the distance between 839 and 0 on a number line is 839, we get the answer as follows:
|839| = 839
Note that the absolute value of 839 can also be written as abs(839) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 840
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