The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1407 or 1407?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1407?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1407| = ?
The absolute value of 1407 is the distance between 1407 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1407:
Since the distance between 1407 and 0 on a number line is 1407, we get the answer as follows:
|1407| = 1407
Note that the absolute value of 1407 can also be written as abs(1407) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1408
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