The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1085 or 1085?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1085?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1085| = ?
The absolute value of 1085 is the distance between 1085 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1085:
Since the distance between 1085 and 0 on a number line is 1085, we get the answer as follows:
|1085| = 1085
Note that the absolute value of 1085 can also be written as abs(1085) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1086
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