The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1003 or 1003?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1003?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1003| = ?
The absolute value of 1003 is the distance between 1003 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1003:
Since the distance between 1003 and 0 on a number line is 1003, we get the answer as follows:
|1003| = 1003
Note that the absolute value of 1003 can also be written as abs(1003) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1004
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