The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 842 or 842?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 842?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|842| = ?
The absolute value of 842 is the distance between 842 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 842:
Since the distance between 842 and 0 on a number line is 842, we get the answer as follows:
|842| = 842
Note that the absolute value of 842 can also be written as abs(842) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 843
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