The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 897 or 897?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 897?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|897| = ?
The absolute value of 897 is the distance between 897 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 897:
Since the distance between 897 and 0 on a number line is 897, we get the answer as follows:
|897| = 897
Note that the absolute value of 897 can also be written as abs(897) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 898
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