The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1486 or 1486?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1486?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1486| = ?
The absolute value of 1486 is the distance between 1486 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1486:

Since the distance between 1486 and 0 on a number line is 1486, we get the answer as follows:
|1486| = 1486
Note that the absolute value of 1486 can also be written as abs(1486) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1487
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