The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1958 or 1958?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1958?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1958| = ?
The absolute value of 1958 is the distance between 1958 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1958:
Since the distance between 1958 and 0 on a number line is 1958, we get the answer as follows:
|1958| = 1958
Note that the absolute value of 1958 can also be written as abs(1958) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1959
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