The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1195 or 1195?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1195?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1195| = ?
The absolute value of 1195 is the distance between 1195 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1195:

Since the distance between 1195 and 0 on a number line is 1195, we get the answer as follows:
|1195| = 1195
Note that the absolute value of 1195 can also be written as abs(1195) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1196
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