The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1180 or 1180?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1180?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1180| = ?
The absolute value of 1180 is the distance between 1180 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1180:

Since the distance between 1180 and 0 on a number line is 1180, we get the answer as follows:
|1180| = 1180
Note that the absolute value of 1180 can also be written as abs(1180) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1181
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