The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1802 or 1802?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1802?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1802| = ?
The absolute value of 1802 is the distance between 1802 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1802:
Since the distance between 1802 and 0 on a number line is 1802, we get the answer as follows:
|1802| = 1802
Note that the absolute value of 1802 can also be written as abs(1802) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1803
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