The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1196 or 1196?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1196?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1196| = ?
The absolute value of 1196 is the distance between 1196 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1196:
Since the distance between 1196 and 0 on a number line is 1196, we get the answer as follows:
|1196| = 1196
Note that the absolute value of 1196 can also be written as abs(1196) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1197
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