The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1487 or 1487?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1487?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1487| = ?
The absolute value of 1487 is the distance between 1487 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1487:
Since the distance between 1487 and 0 on a number line is 1487, we get the answer as follows:
|1487| = 1487
Note that the absolute value of 1487 can also be written as abs(1487) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1488
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