The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1565 or 1565?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1565?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1565| = ?
The absolute value of 1565 is the distance between 1565 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1565:

Since the distance between 1565 and 0 on a number line is 1565, we get the answer as follows:
|1565| = 1565
Note that the absolute value of 1565 can also be written as abs(1565) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1566
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