The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1182 or 1182?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1182?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1182| = ?
The absolute value of 1182 is the distance between 1182 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1182:

Since the distance between 1182 and 0 on a number line is 1182, we get the answer as follows:
|1182| = 1182
Note that the absolute value of 1182 can also be written as abs(1182) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1183
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