The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 958 or 958?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 958?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|958| = ?
The absolute value of 958 is the distance between 958 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 958:
Since the distance between 958 and 0 on a number line is 958, we get the answer as follows:
|958| = 958
Note that the absolute value of 958 can also be written as abs(958) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 959
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