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Are absolute values always positive? explain.

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Answer: No

Step-by-step explanation: Absolute value is measuring the distance away from zero on a number line. A common mistake is to say that if you take the absolute value of any number, the result will be positive.

However, that's not necessarily the case.

The only situation where the absolute value of a number is not positive is when we have the absolute value of zero, which is zero.

Other than that, the absolute value of any number

is the positive version of that number.

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