The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1297 or 1297?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1297?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1297| = ?
The absolute value of 1297 is the distance between 1297 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1297:
Since the distance between 1297 and 0 on a number line is 1297, we get the answer as follows:
|1297| = 1297
Note that the absolute value of 1297 can also be written as abs(1297) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1298
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