The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1002 or 1002?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1002?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1002| = ?
The absolute value of 1002 is the distance between 1002 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1002:
Since the distance between 1002 and 0 on a number line is 1002, we get the answer as follows:
|1002| = 1002
Note that the absolute value of 1002 can also be written as abs(1002) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1003
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