The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 986 or 986?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 986?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|986| = ?
The absolute value of 986 is the distance between 986 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 986:
Since the distance between 986 and 0 on a number line is 986, we get the answer as follows:
|986| = 986
Note that the absolute value of 986 can also be written as abs(986) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 987
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