The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1959 or 1959?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1959?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1959| = ?
The absolute value of 1959 is the distance between 1959 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1959:
Since the distance between 1959 and 0 on a number line is 1959, we get the answer as follows:
|1959| = 1959
Note that the absolute value of 1959 can also be written as abs(1959) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1960
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