The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1937 or 1937?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1937?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1937| = ?
The absolute value of 1937 is the distance between 1937 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1937:
Since the distance between 1937 and 0 on a number line is 1937, we get the answer as follows:
|1937| = 1937
Note that the absolute value of 1937 can also be written as abs(1937) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1938
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