The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1205 or 1205?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1205?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1205| = ?
The absolute value of 1205 is the distance between 1205 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1205:
Since the distance between 1205 and 0 on a number line is 1205, we get the answer as follows:
|1205| = 1205
Note that the absolute value of 1205 can also be written as abs(1205) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1206
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