The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1071 or 1071?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1071?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1071| = ?
The absolute value of 1071 is the distance between 1071 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1071:

Since the distance between 1071 and 0 on a number line is 1071, we get the answer as follows:
|1071| = 1071
Note that the absolute value of 1071 can also be written as abs(1071) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1072
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