The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1821 or 1821?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1821?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1821| = ?
The absolute value of 1821 is the distance between 1821 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1821:
Since the distance between 1821 and 0 on a number line is 1821, we get the answer as follows:
|1821| = 1821
Note that the absolute value of 1821 can also be written as abs(1821) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1822
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