The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1257 or 1257?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1257?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1257| = ?
The absolute value of 1257 is the distance between 1257 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1257:
Since the distance between 1257 and 0 on a number line is 1257, we get the answer as follows:
|1257| = 1257
Note that the absolute value of 1257 can also be written as abs(1257) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1258
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