The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1289 or 1289?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1289?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1289| = ?
The absolute value of 1289 is the distance between 1289 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1289:
Since the distance between 1289 and 0 on a number line is 1289, we get the answer as follows:
|1289| = 1289
Note that the absolute value of 1289 can also be written as abs(1289) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1290
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