The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1253 or 1253?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1253?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1253| = ?
The absolute value of 1253 is the distance between 1253 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1253:
Since the distance between 1253 and 0 on a number line is 1253, we get the answer as follows:
|1253| = 1253
Note that the absolute value of 1253 can also be written as abs(1253) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1254
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