The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1615 or 1615?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1615?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1615| = ?
The absolute value of 1615 is the distance between 1615 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1615:
Since the distance between 1615 and 0 on a number line is 1615, we get the answer as follows:
|1615| = 1615
Note that the absolute value of 1615 can also be written as abs(1615) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1616
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