The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1571 or 1571?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1571?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1571| = ?
The absolute value of 1571 is the distance between 1571 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1571:

Since the distance between 1571 and 0 on a number line is 1571, we get the answer as follows:
|1571| = 1571
Note that the absolute value of 1571 can also be written as abs(1571) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1572
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