The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 871 or 871?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 871?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|871| = ?
The absolute value of 871 is the distance between 871 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 871:
Since the distance between 871 and 0 on a number line is 871, we get the answer as follows:
|871| = 871
Note that the absolute value of 871 can also be written as abs(871) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 872
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