The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1251 or 1251?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1251?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1251| = ?
The absolute value of 1251 is the distance between 1251 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1251:
Since the distance between 1251 and 0 on a number line is 1251, we get the answer as follows:
|1251| = 1251
Note that the absolute value of 1251 can also be written as abs(1251) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1252
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