The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 85 or 85?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 85?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|85| = ?
The absolute value of 85 is the distance between 85 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 85:
Since the distance between 85 and 0 on a number line is 85, we get the answer as follows:
|85| = 85
Note that the absolute value of 85 can also be written as abs(85) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 86
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