The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 879 or 879?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 879?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|879| = ?
The absolute value of 879 is the distance between 879 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 879:
Since the distance between 879 and 0 on a number line is 879, we get the answer as follows:
|879| = 879
Note that the absolute value of 879 can also be written as abs(879) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 880
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