The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1620 or 1620?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1620?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1620| = ?
The absolute value of 1620 is the distance between 1620 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1620:

Since the distance between 1620 and 0 on a number line is 1620, we get the answer as follows:
|1620| = 1620
Note that the absolute value of 1620 can also be written as abs(1620) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1621
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