The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1047 or 1047?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1047?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1047| = ?
The absolute value of 1047 is the distance between 1047 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1047:
Since the distance between 1047 and 0 on a number line is 1047, we get the answer as follows:
|1047| = 1047
Note that the absolute value of 1047 can also be written as abs(1047) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1048
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