The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 983 or 983?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 983?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|983| = ?
The absolute value of 983 is the distance between 983 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 983:
Since the distance between 983 and 0 on a number line is 983, we get the answer as follows:
|983| = 983
Note that the absolute value of 983 can also be written as abs(983) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 984
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