The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1980 or 1980?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1980?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1980| = ?
The absolute value of 1980 is the distance between 1980 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1980:
Since the distance between 1980 and 0 on a number line is 1980, we get the answer as follows:
|1980| = 1980
Note that the absolute value of 1980 can also be written as abs(1980) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1981
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