The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1405 or 1405?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1405?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1405| = ?
The absolute value of 1405 is the distance between 1405 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1405:

Since the distance between 1405 and 0 on a number line is 1405, we get the answer as follows:
|1405| = 1405
Note that the absolute value of 1405 can also be written as abs(1405) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1406
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