The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1531 or 1531?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1531?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1531| = ?
The absolute value of 1531 is the distance between 1531 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1531:
Since the distance between 1531 and 0 on a number line is 1531, we get the answer as follows:
|1531| = 1531
Note that the absolute value of 1531 can also be written as abs(1531) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1532
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