The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1659 or 1659?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1659?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1659| = ?
The absolute value of 1659 is the distance between 1659 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1659:
Since the distance between 1659 and 0 on a number line is 1659, we get the answer as follows:
|1659| = 1659
Note that the absolute value of 1659 can also be written as abs(1659) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1660
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