The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1979 or 1979?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1979?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1979| = ?
The absolute value of 1979 is the distance between 1979 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1979:
Since the distance between 1979 and 0 on a number line is 1979, we get the answer as follows:
|1979| = 1979
Note that the absolute value of 1979 can also be written as abs(1979) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1980
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