The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 985 or 985?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 985?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|985| = ?
The absolute value of 985 is the distance between 985 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 985:
Since the distance between 985 and 0 on a number line is 985, we get the answer as follows:
|985| = 985
Note that the absolute value of 985 can also be written as abs(985) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 986
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