The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1908 or 1908?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1908?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1908| = ?
The absolute value of 1908 is the distance between 1908 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1908:
Since the distance between 1908 and 0 on a number line is 1908, we get the answer as follows:
|1908| = 1908
Note that the absolute value of 1908 can also be written as abs(1908) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1909
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