The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1178 or 1178?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1178?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1178| = ?
The absolute value of 1178 is the distance between 1178 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1178:
Since the distance between 1178 and 0 on a number line is 1178, we get the answer as follows:
|1178| = 1178
Note that the absolute value of 1178 can also be written as abs(1178) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1179
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