The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 990 or 990?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 990?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|990| = ?
The absolute value of 990 is the distance between 990 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 990:
Since the distance between 990 and 0 on a number line is 990, we get the answer as follows:
|990| = 990
Note that the absolute value of 990 can also be written as abs(990) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 991
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