The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1490 or 1490?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1490?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1490| = ?
The absolute value of 1490 is the distance between 1490 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1490:
Since the distance between 1490 and 0 on a number line is 1490, we get the answer as follows:
|1490| = 1490
Note that the absolute value of 1490 can also be written as abs(1490) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1491
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