The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1292 or 1292?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1292?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1292| = ?
The absolute value of 1292 is the distance between 1292 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1292:

Since the distance between 1292 and 0 on a number line is 1292, we get the answer as follows:
|1292| = 1292
Note that the absolute value of 1292 can also be written as abs(1292) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1293
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