The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 84 or 84?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 84?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|84| = ?
The absolute value of 84 is the distance between 84 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 84:
Since the distance between 84 and 0 on a number line is 84, we get the answer as follows:
|84| = 84
Note that the absolute value of 84 can also be written as abs(84) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 85
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