The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1542 or 1542?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1542?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1542| = ?
The absolute value of 1542 is the distance between 1542 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1542:
Since the distance between 1542 and 0 on a number line is 1542, we get the answer as follows:
|1542| = 1542
Note that the absolute value of 1542 can also be written as abs(1542) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1543
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