The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1955 or 1955?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1955?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1955| = ?
The absolute value of 1955 is the distance between 1955 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1955:
Since the distance between 1955 and 0 on a number line is 1955, we get the answer as follows:
|1955| = 1955
Note that the absolute value of 1955 can also be written as abs(1955) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1956
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