The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1969 or 1969?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1969?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1969| = ?
The absolute value of 1969 is the distance between 1969 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1969:
Since the distance between 1969 and 0 on a number line is 1969, we get the answer as follows:
|1969| = 1969
Note that the absolute value of 1969 can also be written as abs(1969) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1970
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