The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1138 or 1138?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1138?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1138| = ?
The absolute value of 1138 is the distance between 1138 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1138:
Since the distance between 1138 and 0 on a number line is 1138, we get the answer as follows:
|1138| = 1138
Note that the absolute value of 1138 can also be written as abs(1138) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1139
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