The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 977 or 977?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 977?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|977| = ?
The absolute value of 977 is the distance between 977 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 977:
Since the distance between 977 and 0 on a number line is 977, we get the answer as follows:
|977| = 977
Note that the absolute value of 977 can also be written as abs(977) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 978
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