The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1040 or 1040?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1040?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1040| = ?
The absolute value of 1040 is the distance between 1040 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1040:
Since the distance between 1040 and 0 on a number line is 1040, we get the answer as follows:
|1040| = 1040
Note that the absolute value of 1040 can also be written as abs(1040) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1041
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