The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1472 or 1472?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1472?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1472| = ?
The absolute value of 1472 is the distance between 1472 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1472:
Since the distance between 1472 and 0 on a number line is 1472, we get the answer as follows:
|1472| = 1472
Note that the absolute value of 1472 can also be written as abs(1472) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1473
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