The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1420 or 1420?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1420?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1420| = ?
The absolute value of 1420 is the distance between 1420 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1420:
Since the distance between 1420 and 0 on a number line is 1420, we get the answer as follows:
|1420| = 1420
Note that the absolute value of 1420 can also be written as abs(1420) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1421
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