The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1838 or 1838?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1838?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1838| = ?
The absolute value of 1838 is the distance between 1838 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1838:
Since the distance between 1838 and 0 on a number line is 1838, we get the answer as follows:
|1838| = 1838
Note that the absolute value of 1838 can also be written as abs(1838) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1839
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