The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1287 or 1287?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1287?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1287| = ?
The absolute value of 1287 is the distance between 1287 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1287:
Since the distance between 1287 and 0 on a number line is 1287, we get the answer as follows:
|1287| = 1287
Note that the absolute value of 1287 can also be written as abs(1287) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1288
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
