The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1940 or 1940?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1940?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1940| = ?
The absolute value of 1940 is the distance between 1940 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1940:
Since the distance between 1940 and 0 on a number line is 1940, we get the answer as follows:
|1940| = 1940
Note that the absolute value of 1940 can also be written as abs(1940) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1941
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