The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1608 or 1608?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1608?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1608| = ?
The absolute value of 1608 is the distance between 1608 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1608:
Since the distance between 1608 and 0 on a number line is 1608, we get the answer as follows:
|1608| = 1608
Note that the absolute value of 1608 can also be written as abs(1608) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1609
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