The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1204 or 1204?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1204?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1204| = ?
The absolute value of 1204 is the distance between 1204 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1204:
Since the distance between 1204 and 0 on a number line is 1204, we get the answer as follows:
|1204| = 1204
Note that the absolute value of 1204 can also be written as abs(1204) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1205
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