The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1655 or 1655?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1655?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1655| = ?
The absolute value of 1655 is the distance between 1655 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1655:
Since the distance between 1655 and 0 on a number line is 1655, we get the answer as follows:
|1655| = 1655
Note that the absolute value of 1655 can also be written as abs(1655) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1656
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