The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1215 or 1215?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1215?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1215| = ?
The absolute value of 1215 is the distance between 1215 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1215:
Since the distance between 1215 and 0 on a number line is 1215, we get the answer as follows:
|1215| = 1215
Note that the absolute value of 1215 can also be written as abs(1215) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1216
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