The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1221 or 1221?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1221?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1221| = ?
The absolute value of 1221 is the distance between 1221 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1221:
Since the distance between 1221 and 0 on a number line is 1221, we get the answer as follows:
|1221| = 1221
Note that the absolute value of 1221 can also be written as abs(1221) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1222
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