The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1385 or 1385?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1385?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1385| = ?
The absolute value of 1385 is the distance between 1385 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1385:

Since the distance between 1385 and 0 on a number line is 1385, we get the answer as follows:
|1385| = 1385
Note that the absolute value of 1385 can also be written as abs(1385) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1386
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