The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1946 or 1946?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1946?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1946| = ?
The absolute value of 1946 is the distance between 1946 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1946:
Since the distance between 1946 and 0 on a number line is 1946, we get the answer as follows:
|1946| = 1946
Note that the absolute value of 1946 can also be written as abs(1946) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1947
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