The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1206 or 1206?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1206?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1206| = ?
The absolute value of 1206 is the distance between 1206 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1206:
Since the distance between 1206 and 0 on a number line is 1206, we get the answer as follows:
|1206| = 1206
Note that the absolute value of 1206 can also be written as abs(1206) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1207
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