The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 870 or 870?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 870?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|870| = ?
The absolute value of 870 is the distance between 870 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 870:
Since the distance between 870 and 0 on a number line is 870, we get the answer as follows:
|870| = 870
Note that the absolute value of 870 can also be written as abs(870) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 871
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