The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1460 or 1460?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1460?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1460| = ?
The absolute value of 1460 is the distance between 1460 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1460:
Since the distance between 1460 and 0 on a number line is 1460, we get the answer as follows:
|1460| = 1460
Note that the absolute value of 1460 can also be written as abs(1460) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1461
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