The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1185 or 1185?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1185?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1185| = ?
The absolute value of 1185 is the distance between 1185 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1185:
Since the distance between 1185 and 0 on a number line is 1185, we get the answer as follows:
|1185| = 1185
Note that the absolute value of 1185 can also be written as abs(1185) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1186
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