The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 978 or 978?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 978?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|978| = ?
The absolute value of 978 is the distance between 978 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 978:
Since the distance between 978 and 0 on a number line is 978, we get the answer as follows:
|978| = 978
Note that the absolute value of 978 can also be written as abs(978) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 979
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