The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1580 or 1580?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1580?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1580| = ?
The absolute value of 1580 is the distance between 1580 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1580:
Since the distance between 1580 and 0 on a number line is 1580, we get the answer as follows:
|1580| = 1580
Note that the absolute value of 1580 can also be written as abs(1580) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1581
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