The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 984 or 984?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 984?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|984| = ?
The absolute value of 984 is the distance between 984 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 984:
Since the distance between 984 and 0 on a number line is 984, we get the answer as follows:
|984| = 984
Note that the absolute value of 984 can also be written as abs(984) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 985
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