The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1248 or 1248?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1248?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1248| = ?
The absolute value of 1248 is the distance between 1248 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1248:
Since the distance between 1248 and 0 on a number line is 1248, we get the answer as follows:
|1248| = 1248
Note that the absolute value of 1248 can also be written as abs(1248) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1249
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