The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1214 or 1214?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1214?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1214| = ?
The absolute value of 1214 is the distance between 1214 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1214:
Since the distance between 1214 and 0 on a number line is 1214, we get the answer as follows:
|1214| = 1214
Note that the absolute value of 1214 can also be written as abs(1214) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1215
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