The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1598 or 1598?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1598?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1598| = ?
The absolute value of 1598 is the distance between 1598 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1598:
Since the distance between 1598 and 0 on a number line is 1598, we get the answer as follows:
|1598| = 1598
Note that the absolute value of 1598 can also be written as abs(1598) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1599
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