The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 865 or 865?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 865?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|865| = ?
The absolute value of 865 is the distance between 865 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 865:
Since the distance between 865 and 0 on a number line is 865, we get the answer as follows:
|865| = 865
Note that the absolute value of 865 can also be written as abs(865) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 866
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