The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1947 or 1947?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1947?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1947| = ?
The absolute value of 1947 is the distance between 1947 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1947:
Since the distance between 1947 and 0 on a number line is 1947, we get the answer as follows:
|1947| = 1947
Note that the absolute value of 1947 can also be written as abs(1947) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1948
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