The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1388 or 1388?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1388?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1388| = ?
The absolute value of 1388 is the distance between 1388 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1388:
Since the distance between 1388 and 0 on a number line is 1388, we get the answer as follows:
|1388| = 1388
Note that the absolute value of 1388 can also be written as abs(1388) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1389
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