The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1916 or 1916?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1916?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1916| = ?
The absolute value of 1916 is the distance between 1916 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1916:
Since the distance between 1916 and 0 on a number line is 1916, we get the answer as follows:
|1916| = 1916
Note that the absolute value of 1916 can also be written as abs(1916) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1917
Use the knowledge you gained on this page to figure out the absolute value of the next number on our list.
|
|
