The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1949 or 1949?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1949?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1949| = ?
The absolute value of 1949 is the distance between 1949 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1949:
Since the distance between 1949 and 0 on a number line is 1949, we get the answer as follows:
|1949| = 1949
Note that the absolute value of 1949 can also be written as abs(1949) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1950
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