The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1201 or 1201?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1201?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1201| = ?
The absolute value of 1201 is the distance between 1201 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1201:
Since the distance between 1201 and 0 on a number line is 1201, we get the answer as follows:
|1201| = 1201
Note that the absolute value of 1201 can also be written as abs(1201) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1202
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