The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1965 or 1965?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1965?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1965| = ?
The absolute value of 1965 is the distance between 1965 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1965:
Since the distance between 1965 and 0 on a number line is 1965, we get the answer as follows:
|1965| = 1965
Note that the absolute value of 1965 can also be written as abs(1965) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1966
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