The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1488 or 1488?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1488?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1488| = ?
The absolute value of 1488 is the distance between 1488 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1488:
Since the distance between 1488 and 0 on a number line is 1488, we get the answer as follows:
|1488| = 1488
Note that the absolute value of 1488 can also be written as abs(1488) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1489
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