The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1537 or 1537?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1537?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1537| = ?
The absolute value of 1537 is the distance between 1537 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1537:
Since the distance between 1537 and 0 on a number line is 1537, we get the answer as follows:
|1537| = 1537
Note that the absolute value of 1537 can also be written as abs(1537) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1538
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