The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 991 or 991?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 991?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|991| = ?
The absolute value of 991 is the distance between 991 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 991:
Since the distance between 991 and 0 on a number line is 991, we get the answer as follows:
|991| = 991
Note that the absolute value of 991 can also be written as abs(991) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 992
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