The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8685 or 8685?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8685?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8685| = ?
The absolute value of 8685 is the distance between 8685 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8685:
Since the distance between 8685 and 0 on a number line is 8685, we get the answer as follows:
|8685| = 8685
Note that the absolute value of 8685 can also be written as abs(8685) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8686
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