The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1059 or 1059?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1059?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1059| = ?
The absolute value of 1059 is the distance between 1059 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1059:
Since the distance between 1059 and 0 on a number line is 1059, we get the answer as follows:
|1059| = 1059
Note that the absolute value of 1059 can also be written as abs(1059) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1060
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