The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1042 or 1042?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1042?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1042| = ?
The absolute value of 1042 is the distance between 1042 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1042:
Since the distance between 1042 and 0 on a number line is 1042, we get the answer as follows:
|1042| = 1042
Note that the absolute value of 1042 can also be written as abs(1042) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1043
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