The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 873 or 873?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 873?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|873| = ?
The absolute value of 873 is the distance between 873 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 873:
Since the distance between 873 and 0 on a number line is 873, we get the answer as follows:
|873| = 873
Note that the absolute value of 873 can also be written as abs(873) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 874
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