The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1852 or 1852?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1852?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1852| = ?
The absolute value of 1852 is the distance between 1852 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1852:
Since the distance between 1852 and 0 on a number line is 1852, we get the answer as follows:
|1852| = 1852
Note that the absolute value of 1852 can also be written as abs(1852) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1853
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