The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1162 or 1162?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1162?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1162| = ?
The absolute value of 1162 is the distance between 1162 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1162:

Since the distance between 1162 and 0 on a number line is 1162, we get the answer as follows:
|1162| = 1162
Note that the absolute value of 1162 can also be written as abs(1162) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1163
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