The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 87 or 87?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 87?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|87| = ?
The absolute value of 87 is the distance between 87 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 87:
Since the distance between 87 and 0 on a number line is 87, we get the answer as follows:
|87| = 87
Note that the absolute value of 87 can also be written as abs(87) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 88
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