The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 840 or 840?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 840?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|840| = ?
The absolute value of 840 is the distance between 840 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 840:
Since the distance between 840 and 0 on a number line is 840, we get the answer as follows:
|840| = 840
Note that the absolute value of 840 can also be written as abs(840) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 841
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