The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 988 or 988?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 988?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|988| = ?
The absolute value of 988 is the distance between 988 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 988:
Since the distance between 988 and 0 on a number line is 988, we get the answer as follows:
|988| = 988
Note that the absolute value of 988 can also be written as abs(988) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 989
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