The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1515 or 1515?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1515?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1515| = ?
The absolute value of 1515 is the distance between 1515 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1515:
Since the distance between 1515 and 0 on a number line is 1515, we get the answer as follows:
|1515| = 1515
Note that the absolute value of 1515 can also be written as abs(1515) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1516
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