The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1147 or 1147?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1147?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1147| = ?
The absolute value of 1147 is the distance between 1147 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1147:

Since the distance between 1147 and 0 on a number line is 1147, we get the answer as follows:
|1147| = 1147
Note that the absolute value of 1147 can also be written as abs(1147) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1148
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