The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1442 or 1442?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1442?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1442| = ?
The absolute value of 1442 is the distance between 1442 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1442:
Since the distance between 1442 and 0 on a number line is 1442, we get the answer as follows:
|1442| = 1442
Note that the absolute value of 1442 can also be written as abs(1442) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1443
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