The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1254 or 1254?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1254?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1254| = ?
The absolute value of 1254 is the distance between 1254 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1254:

Since the distance between 1254 and 0 on a number line is 1254, we get the answer as follows:
|1254| = 1254
Note that the absolute value of 1254 can also be written as abs(1254) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1255
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