The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1288 or 1288?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1288?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1288| = ?
The absolute value of 1288 is the distance between 1288 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1288:
Since the distance between 1288 and 0 on a number line is 1288, we get the answer as follows:
|1288| = 1288
Note that the absolute value of 1288 can also be written as abs(1288) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1289
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