The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 898 or 898?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 898?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|898| = ?
The absolute value of 898 is the distance between 898 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 898:
Since the distance between 898 and 0 on a number line is 898, we get the answer as follows:
|898| = 898
Note that the absolute value of 898 can also be written as abs(898) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 899
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