The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1942 or 1942?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1942?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1942| = ?
The absolute value of 1942 is the distance between 1942 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1942:
Since the distance between 1942 and 0 on a number line is 1942, we get the answer as follows:
|1942| = 1942
Note that the absolute value of 1942 can also be written as abs(1942) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1943
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