The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1397 or 1397?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1397?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1397| = ?
The absolute value of 1397 is the distance between 1397 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1397:
Since the distance between 1397 and 0 on a number line is 1397, we get the answer as follows:
|1397| = 1397
Note that the absolute value of 1397 can also be written as abs(1397) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1398
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