The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1495 or 1495?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1495?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1495| = ?
The absolute value of 1495 is the distance between 1495 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1495:
Since the distance between 1495 and 0 on a number line is 1495, we get the answer as follows:
|1495| = 1495
Note that the absolute value of 1495 can also be written as abs(1495) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1496
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