The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1964 or 1964?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1964?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1964| = ?
The absolute value of 1964 is the distance between 1964 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1964:
Since the distance between 1964 and 0 on a number line is 1964, we get the answer as follows:
|1964| = 1964
Note that the absolute value of 1964 can also be written as abs(1964) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1965
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