The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1229 or 1229?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1229?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1229| = ?
The absolute value of 1229 is the distance between 1229 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1229:

Since the distance between 1229 and 0 on a number line is 1229, we get the answer as follows:
|1229| = 1229
Note that the absolute value of 1229 can also be written as abs(1229) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1230
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