The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 852 or 852?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 852?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|852| = ?
The absolute value of 852 is the distance between 852 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 852:
Since the distance between 852 and 0 on a number line is 852, we get the answer as follows:
|852| = 852
Note that the absolute value of 852 can also be written as abs(852) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 853
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