The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 89 or 89?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 89?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|89| = ?
The absolute value of 89 is the distance between 89 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 89:
Since the distance between 89 and 0 on a number line is 89, we get the answer as follows:
|89| = 89
Note that the absolute value of 89 can also be written as abs(89) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 90
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