The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1184 or 1184?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1184?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1184| = ?
The absolute value of 1184 is the distance between 1184 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1184:

Since the distance between 1184 and 0 on a number line is 1184, we get the answer as follows:
|1184| = 1184
Note that the absolute value of 1184 can also be written as abs(1184) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1185
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