The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1061 or 1061?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1061?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1061| = ?
The absolute value of 1061 is the distance between 1061 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1061:

Since the distance between 1061 and 0 on a number line is 1061, we get the answer as follows:
|1061| = 1061
Note that the absolute value of 1061 can also be written as abs(1061) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1062
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