The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1800 or 1800?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1800?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1800| = ?
The absolute value of 1800 is the distance between 1800 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1800:

Since the distance between 1800 and 0 on a number line is 1800, we get the answer as follows:
|1800| = 1800
Note that the absolute value of 1800 can also be written as abs(1800) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1801
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