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