The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 878 or 878?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 878?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|878| = ?
The absolute value of 878 is the distance between 878 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 878:
Since the distance between 878 and 0 on a number line is 878, we get the answer as follows:
|878| = 878
Note that the absolute value of 878 can also be written as abs(878) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 879
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