The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1479 or 1479?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1479?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1479| = ?
The absolute value of 1479 is the distance between 1479 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1479:
Since the distance between 1479 and 0 on a number line is 1479, we get the answer as follows:
|1479| = 1479
Note that the absolute value of 1479 can also be written as abs(1479) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1480
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