The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1243 or 1243?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1243?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1243| = ?
The absolute value of 1243 is the distance between 1243 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1243:
Since the distance between 1243 and 0 on a number line is 1243, we get the answer as follows:
|1243| = 1243
Note that the absolute value of 1243 can also be written as abs(1243) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1244
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