The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1234 or 1234?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1234?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1234| = ?
The absolute value of 1234 is the distance between 1234 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1234:
Since the distance between 1234 and 0 on a number line is 1234, we get the answer as follows:
|1234| = 1234
Note that the absolute value of 1234 can also be written as abs(1234) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1235
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