The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1957 or 1957?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1957?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1957| = ?
The absolute value of 1957 is the distance between 1957 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1957:
Since the distance between 1957 and 0 on a number line is 1957, we get the answer as follows:
|1957| = 1957
Note that the absolute value of 1957 can also be written as abs(1957) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1958
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