The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8605 or 8605?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8605?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8605| = ?
The absolute value of 8605 is the distance between 8605 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8605:
Since the distance between 8605 and 0 on a number line is 8605, we get the answer as follows:
|8605| = 8605
Note that the absolute value of 8605 can also be written as abs(8605) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8606
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