The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1259 or 1259?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1259?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1259| = ?
The absolute value of 1259 is the distance between 1259 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1259:
Since the distance between 1259 and 0 on a number line is 1259, we get the answer as follows:
|1259| = 1259
Note that the absolute value of 1259 can also be written as abs(1259) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1260
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