The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 995 or 995?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 995?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|995| = ?
The absolute value of 995 is the distance between 995 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 995:
Since the distance between 995 and 0 on a number line is 995, we get the answer as follows:
|995| = 995
Note that the absolute value of 995 can also be written as abs(995) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 996
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