The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1409 or 1409?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1409?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1409| = ?
The absolute value of 1409 is the distance between 1409 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1409:

Since the distance between 1409 and 0 on a number line is 1409, we get the answer as follows:
|1409| = 1409
Note that the absolute value of 1409 can also be written as abs(1409) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1410
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