The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1616 or 1616?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1616?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1616| = ?
The absolute value of 1616 is the distance between 1616 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1616:
Since the distance between 1616 and 0 on a number line is 1616, we get the answer as follows:
|1616| = 1616
Note that the absolute value of 1616 can also be written as abs(1616) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1617
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