The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1216 or 1216?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1216?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1216| = ?
The absolute value of 1216 is the distance between 1216 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1216:
Since the distance between 1216 and 0 on a number line is 1216, we get the answer as follows:
|1216| = 1216
Note that the absolute value of 1216 can also be written as abs(1216) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1217
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