The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1981 or 1981?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1981?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1981| = ?
The absolute value of 1981 is the distance between 1981 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1981:
Since the distance between 1981 and 0 on a number line is 1981, we get the answer as follows:
|1981| = 1981
Note that the absolute value of 1981 can also be written as abs(1981) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1982
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