The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1500 or 1500?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1500?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1500| = ?
The absolute value of 1500 is the distance between 1500 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1500:
Since the distance between 1500 and 0 on a number line is 1500, we get the answer as follows:
|1500| = 1500
Note that the absolute value of 1500 can also be written as abs(1500) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1501
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