The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1087 or 1087?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1087?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1087| = ?
The absolute value of 1087 is the distance between 1087 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1087:
Since the distance between 1087 and 0 on a number line is 1087, we get the answer as follows:
|1087| = 1087
Note that the absolute value of 1087 can also be written as abs(1087) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1088
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