The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1157 or 1157?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1157?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1157| = ?
The absolute value of 1157 is the distance between 1157 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1157:
Since the distance between 1157 and 0 on a number line is 1157, we get the answer as follows:
|1157| = 1157
Note that the absolute value of 1157 can also be written as abs(1157) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1158
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