The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1220 or 1220?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1220?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1220| = ?
The absolute value of 1220 is the distance between 1220 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1220:
Since the distance between 1220 and 0 on a number line is 1220, we get the answer as follows:
|1220| = 1220
Note that the absolute value of 1220 can also be written as abs(1220) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1221
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