The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1960 or 1960?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1960?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1960| = ?
The absolute value of 1960 is the distance between 1960 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1960:
Since the distance between 1960 and 0 on a number line is 1960, we get the answer as follows:
|1960| = 1960
Note that the absolute value of 1960 can also be written as abs(1960) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1961
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