The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1295 or 1295?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1295?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1295| = ?
The absolute value of 1295 is the distance between 1295 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1295:

Since the distance between 1295 and 0 on a number line is 1295, we get the answer as follows:
|1295| = 1295
Note that the absolute value of 1295 can also be written as abs(1295) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1296
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