The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1255 or 1255?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1255?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1255| = ?
The absolute value of 1255 is the distance between 1255 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1255:
Since the distance between 1255 and 0 on a number line is 1255, we get the answer as follows:
|1255| = 1255
Note that the absolute value of 1255 can also be written as abs(1255) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1256
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