The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1189 or 1189?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1189?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1189| = ?
The absolute value of 1189 is the distance between 1189 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1189:
Since the distance between 1189 and 0 on a number line is 1189, we get the answer as follows:
|1189| = 1189
Note that the absolute value of 1189 can also be written as abs(1189) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1190
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