The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1496 or 1496?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1496?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1496| = ?
The absolute value of 1496 is the distance between 1496 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1496:
Since the distance between 1496 and 0 on a number line is 1496, we get the answer as follows:
|1496| = 1496
Note that the absolute value of 1496 can also be written as abs(1496) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1497
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