The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8587 or 8587?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8587?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8587| = ?
The absolute value of 8587 is the distance between 8587 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8587:
Since the distance between 8587 and 0 on a number line is 8587, we get the answer as follows:
|8587| = 8587
Note that the absolute value of 8587 can also be written as abs(8587) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8588
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