The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1265 or 1265?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1265?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1265| = ?
The absolute value of 1265 is the distance between 1265 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1265:
Since the distance between 1265 and 0 on a number line is 1265, we get the answer as follows:
|1265| = 1265
Note that the absolute value of 1265 can also be written as abs(1265) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1266
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