The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1970 or 1970?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1970?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1970| = ?
The absolute value of 1970 is the distance between 1970 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1970:
Since the distance between 1970 and 0 on a number line is 1970, we get the answer as follows:
|1970| = 1970
Note that the absolute value of 1970 can also be written as abs(1970) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1971
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