The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1230 or 1230?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1230?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1230| = ?
The absolute value of 1230 is the distance between 1230 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1230:
Since the distance between 1230 and 0 on a number line is 1230, we get the answer as follows:
|1230| = 1230
Note that the absolute value of 1230 can also be written as abs(1230) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1231
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