The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1270 or 1270?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1270?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1270| = ?
The absolute value of 1270 is the distance between 1270 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1270:
Since the distance between 1270 and 0 on a number line is 1270, we get the answer as follows:
|1270| = 1270
Note that the absolute value of 1270 can also be written as abs(1270) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1271
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