The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1246 or 1246?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1246?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1246| = ?
The absolute value of 1246 is the distance between 1246 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1246:
Since the distance between 1246 and 0 on a number line is 1246, we get the answer as follows:
|1246| = 1246
Note that the absolute value of 1246 can also be written as abs(1246) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1247
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