The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1258 or 1258?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1258?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1258| = ?
The absolute value of 1258 is the distance between 1258 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1258:
Since the distance between 1258 and 0 on a number line is 1258, we get the answer as follows:
|1258| = 1258
Note that the absolute value of 1258 can also be written as abs(1258) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1259
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