The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1628 or 1628?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1628?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1628| = ?
The absolute value of 1628 is the distance between 1628 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1628:

Since the distance between 1628 and 0 on a number line is 1628, we get the answer as follows:
|1628| = 1628
Note that the absolute value of 1628 can also be written as abs(1628) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1629
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