The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 885 or 885?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 885?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|885| = ?
The absolute value of 885 is the distance between 885 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 885:
Since the distance between 885 and 0 on a number line is 885, we get the answer as follows:
|885| = 885
Note that the absolute value of 885 can also be written as abs(885) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 886
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