The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1523 or 1523?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1523?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1523| = ?
The absolute value of 1523 is the distance between 1523 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1523:
Since the distance between 1523 and 0 on a number line is 1523, we get the answer as follows:
|1523| = 1523
Note that the absolute value of 1523 can also be written as abs(1523) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1524
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