The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 86 or 86?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 86?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|86| = ?
The absolute value of 86 is the distance between 86 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 86:
Since the distance between 86 and 0 on a number line is 86, we get the answer as follows:
|86| = 86
Note that the absolute value of 86 can also be written as abs(86) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 87
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