The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1009 or 1009?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1009?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1009| = ?
The absolute value of 1009 is the distance between 1009 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1009:
Since the distance between 1009 and 0 on a number line is 1009, we get the answer as follows:
|1009| = 1009
Note that the absolute value of 1009 can also be written as abs(1009) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1010
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