The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1609 or 1609?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1609?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1609| = ?
The absolute value of 1609 is the distance between 1609 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1609:
Since the distance between 1609 and 0 on a number line is 1609, we get the answer as follows:
|1609| = 1609
Note that the absolute value of 1609 can also be written as abs(1609) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1610
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