The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1275 or 1275?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1275?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1275| = ?
The absolute value of 1275 is the distance between 1275 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1275:

Since the distance between 1275 and 0 on a number line is 1275, we get the answer as follows:
|1275| = 1275
Note that the absolute value of 1275 can also be written as abs(1275) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1276
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