The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 868 or 868?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 868?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|868| = ?
The absolute value of 868 is the distance between 868 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 868:
Since the distance between 868 and 0 on a number line is 868, we get the answer as follows:
|868| = 868
Note that the absolute value of 868 can also be written as abs(868) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 869
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