The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1639 or 1639?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1639?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1639| = ?
The absolute value of 1639 is the distance between 1639 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1639:
Since the distance between 1639 and 0 on a number line is 1639, we get the answer as follows:
|1639| = 1639
Note that the absolute value of 1639 can also be written as abs(1639) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1640
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
