The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1638 or 1638?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1638?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1638| = ?
The absolute value of 1638 is the distance between 1638 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1638:
Since the distance between 1638 and 0 on a number line is 1638, we get the answer as follows:
|1638| = 1638
Note that the absolute value of 1638 can also be written as abs(1638) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1639
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