The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1237 or 1237?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1237?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1237| = ?
The absolute value of 1237 is the distance between 1237 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1237:
Since the distance between 1237 and 0 on a number line is 1237, we get the answer as follows:
|1237| = 1237
Note that the absolute value of 1237 can also be written as abs(1237) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1238
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