The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 851 or 851?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 851?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|851| = ?
The absolute value of 851 is the distance between 851 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 851:
Since the distance between 851 and 0 on a number line is 851, we get the answer as follows:
|851| = 851
Note that the absolute value of 851 can also be written as abs(851) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 852
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