The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1208 or 1208?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1208?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1208| = ?
The absolute value of 1208 is the distance between 1208 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1208:
Since the distance between 1208 and 0 on a number line is 1208, we get the answer as follows:
|1208| = 1208
Note that the absolute value of 1208 can also be written as abs(1208) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1209
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