The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1238 or 1238?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1238?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1238| = ?
The absolute value of 1238 is the distance between 1238 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1238:
Since the distance between 1238 and 0 on a number line is 1238, we get the answer as follows:
|1238| = 1238
Note that the absolute value of 1238 can also be written as abs(1238) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1239
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