The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1516 or 1516?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1516?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1516| = ?
The absolute value of 1516 is the distance between 1516 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1516:
Since the distance between 1516 and 0 on a number line is 1516, we get the answer as follows:
|1516| = 1516
Note that the absolute value of 1516 can also be written as abs(1516) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1517
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