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absolute value of a number can be considered as the distance between 0
and that number on the real number line.
Remember that distance is always a positive quantity (or zero). The distance in the diagram above from +4 to 0 is 4 units and the distance from -3 to 0 is 3 units. These units are never negative values. We write this as
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