The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 97 or 97?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 97?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|97| = ?
The absolute value of 97 is the distance between 97 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 97:

Since the distance between 97 and 0 on a number line is 97, we get the answer as follows:
|97| = 97
Note that the absolute value of 97 can also be written as abs(97) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 98
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