The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 877 or 877?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 877?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|877| = ?
The absolute value of 877 is the distance between 877 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 877:
Since the distance between 877 and 0 on a number line is 877, we get the answer as follows:
|877| = 877
Note that the absolute value of 877 can also be written as abs(877) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 878
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