The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1585 or 1585?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1585?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1585| = ?
The absolute value of 1585 is the distance between 1585 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1585:
Since the distance between 1585 and 0 on a number line is 1585, we get the answer as follows:
|1585| = 1585
Note that the absolute value of 1585 can also be written as abs(1585) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1586
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