The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1247 or 1247?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1247?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1247| = ?
The absolute value of 1247 is the distance between 1247 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1247:
Since the distance between 1247 and 0 on a number line is 1247, we get the answer as follows:
|1247| = 1247
Note that the absolute value of 1247 can also be written as abs(1247) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1248
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