The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1240 or 1240?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1240?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1240| = ?
The absolute value of 1240 is the distance between 1240 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1240:
Since the distance between 1240 and 0 on a number line is 1240, we get the answer as follows:
|1240| = 1240
Note that the absolute value of 1240 can also be written as abs(1240) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1241
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