The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1587 or 1587?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1587?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1587| = ?
The absolute value of 1587 is the distance between 1587 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1587:
Since the distance between 1587 and 0 on a number line is 1587, we get the answer as follows:
|1587| = 1587
Note that the absolute value of 1587 can also be written as abs(1587) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1588
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