The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1600 or 1600?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1600?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1600| = ?
The absolute value of 1600 is the distance between 1600 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1600:
Since the distance between 1600 and 0 on a number line is 1600, we get the answer as follows:
|1600| = 1600
Note that the absolute value of 1600 can also be written as abs(1600) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1601
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