The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1006 or 1006?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1006?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1006| = ?
The absolute value of 1006 is the distance between 1006 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1006:
Since the distance between 1006 and 0 on a number line is 1006, we get the answer as follows:
|1006| = 1006
Note that the absolute value of 1006 can also be written as abs(1006) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1007
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