The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1187 or 1187?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1187?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1187| = ?
The absolute value of 1187 is the distance between 1187 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1187:
Since the distance between 1187 and 0 on a number line is 1187, we get the answer as follows:
|1187| = 1187
Note that the absolute value of 1187 can also be written as abs(1187) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1188
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