The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8609 or 8609?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8609?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8609| = ?
The absolute value of 8609 is the distance between 8609 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8609:
Since the distance between 8609 and 0 on a number line is 8609, we get the answer as follows:
|8609| = 8609
Note that the absolute value of 8609 can also be written as abs(8609) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8610
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