The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1438 or 1438?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1438?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1438| = ?
The absolute value of 1438 is the distance between 1438 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1438:
Since the distance between 1438 and 0 on a number line is 1438, we get the answer as follows:
|1438| = 1438
Note that the absolute value of 1438 can also be written as abs(1438) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1439
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