The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 947 or 947?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 947?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|947| = ?
The absolute value of 947 is the distance between 947 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 947:
Since the distance between 947 and 0 on a number line is 947, we get the answer as follows:
|947| = 947
Note that the absolute value of 947 can also be written as abs(947) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 948
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