The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 853 or 853?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 853?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|853| = ?
The absolute value of 853 is the distance between 853 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 853:
Since the distance between 853 and 0 on a number line is 853, we get the answer as follows:
|853| = 853
Note that the absolute value of 853 can also be written as abs(853) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 854
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