The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1601 or 1601?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1601?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1601| = ?
The absolute value of 1601 is the distance between 1601 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1601:
Since the distance between 1601 and 0 on a number line is 1601, we get the answer as follows:
|1601| = 1601
Note that the absolute value of 1601 can also be written as abs(1601) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1602
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