The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1408 or 1408?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1408?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1408| = ?
The absolute value of 1408 is the distance between 1408 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1408:
Since the distance between 1408 and 0 on a number line is 1408, we get the answer as follows:
|1408| = 1408
Note that the absolute value of 1408 can also be written as abs(1408) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1409
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