The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1520 or 1520?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1520?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1520| = ?
The absolute value of 1520 is the distance between 1520 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1520:
Since the distance between 1520 and 0 on a number line is 1520, we get the answer as follows:
|1520| = 1520
Note that the absolute value of 1520 can also be written as abs(1520) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1521
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