The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1242 or 1242?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1242?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1242| = ?
The absolute value of 1242 is the distance between 1242 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1242:
Since the distance between 1242 and 0 on a number line is 1242, we get the answer as follows:
|1242| = 1242
Note that the absolute value of 1242 can also be written as abs(1242) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1243
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