The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1503 or 1503?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1503?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1503| = ?
The absolute value of 1503 is the distance between 1503 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1503:
Since the distance between 1503 and 0 on a number line is 1503, we get the answer as follows:
|1503| = 1503
Note that the absolute value of 1503 can also be written as abs(1503) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1504
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