The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 998 or 998?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 998?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|998| = ?
The absolute value of 998 is the distance between 998 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 998:
Since the distance between 998 and 0 on a number line is 998, we get the answer as follows:
|998| = 998
Note that the absolute value of 998 can also be written as abs(998) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 999
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