The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1642 or 1642?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1642?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1642| = ?
The absolute value of 1642 is the distance between 1642 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1642:
Since the distance between 1642 and 0 on a number line is 1642, we get the answer as follows:
|1642| = 1642
Note that the absolute value of 1642 can also be written as abs(1642) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1643
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