The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8600 or 8600?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8600?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8600| = ?
The absolute value of 8600 is the distance between 8600 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8600:
Since the distance between 8600 and 0 on a number line is 8600, we get the answer as follows:
|8600| = 8600
Note that the absolute value of 8600 can also be written as abs(8600) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8601
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