The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 972 or 972?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 972?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|972| = ?
The absolute value of 972 is the distance between 972 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 972:
Since the distance between 972 and 0 on a number line is 972, we get the answer as follows:
|972| = 972
Note that the absolute value of 972 can also be written as abs(972) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 973
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