The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1285 or 1285?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1285?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1285| = ?
The absolute value of 1285 is the distance between 1285 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1285:

Since the distance between 1285 and 0 on a number line is 1285, we get the answer as follows:
|1285| = 1285
Note that the absolute value of 1285 can also be written as abs(1285) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1286
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