The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1158 or 1158?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1158?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1158| = ?
The absolute value of 1158 is the distance between 1158 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1158:
Since the distance between 1158 and 0 on a number line is 1158, we get the answer as follows:
|1158| = 1158
Note that the absolute value of 1158 can also be written as abs(1158) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1159
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