The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1227 or 1227?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1227?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1227| = ?
The absolute value of 1227 is the distance between 1227 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1227:

Since the distance between 1227 and 0 on a number line is 1227, we get the answer as follows:
|1227| = 1227
Note that the absolute value of 1227 can also be written as abs(1227) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1228
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