The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1971 or 1971?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1971?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1971| = ?
The absolute value of 1971 is the distance between 1971 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1971:
Since the distance between 1971 and 0 on a number line is 1971, we get the answer as follows:
|1971| = 1971
Note that the absolute value of 1971 can also be written as abs(1971) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1972
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