The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1962 or 1962?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1962?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1962| = ?
The absolute value of 1962 is the distance between 1962 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1962:
Since the distance between 1962 and 0 on a number line is 1962, we get the answer as follows:
|1962| = 1962
Note that the absolute value of 1962 can also be written as abs(1962) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1963
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