The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1820 or 1820?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1820?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1820| = ?
The absolute value of 1820 is the distance between 1820 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1820:
Since the distance between 1820 and 0 on a number line is 1820, we get the answer as follows:
|1820| = 1820
Note that the absolute value of 1820 can also be written as abs(1820) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1821
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