The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1547 or 1547?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1547?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1547| = ?
The absolute value of 1547 is the distance between 1547 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1547:
Since the distance between 1547 and 0 on a number line is 1547, we get the answer as follows:
|1547| = 1547
Note that the absolute value of 1547 can also be written as abs(1547) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1548
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