The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1427 or 1427?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1427?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1427| = ?
The absolute value of 1427 is the distance between 1427 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1427:
Since the distance between 1427 and 0 on a number line is 1427, we get the answer as follows:
|1427| = 1427
Note that the absolute value of 1427 can also be written as abs(1427) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1428
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