The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1236 or 1236?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1236?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1236| = ?
The absolute value of 1236 is the distance between 1236 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1236:
Since the distance between 1236 and 0 on a number line is 1236, we get the answer as follows:
|1236| = 1236
Note that the absolute value of 1236 can also be written as abs(1236) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1237
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