The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1457 or 1457?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1457?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1457| = ?
The absolute value of 1457 is the distance between 1457 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1457:
Since the distance between 1457 and 0 on a number line is 1457, we get the answer as follows:
|1457| = 1457
Note that the absolute value of 1457 can also be written as abs(1457) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1458
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