The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1559 or 1559?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1559?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1559| = ?
The absolute value of 1559 is the distance between 1559 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1559:
Since the distance between 1559 and 0 on a number line is 1559, we get the answer as follows:
|1559| = 1559
Note that the absolute value of 1559 can also be written as abs(1559) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1560
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