The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 999 or 999?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 999?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|999| = ?
The absolute value of 999 is the distance between 999 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 999:
Since the distance between 999 and 0 on a number line is 999, we get the answer as follows:
|999| = 999
Note that the absolute value of 999 can also be written as abs(999) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1000
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