The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1982 or 1982?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1982?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1982| = ?
The absolute value of 1982 is the distance between 1982 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1982:
Since the distance between 1982 and 0 on a number line is 1982, we get the answer as follows:
|1982| = 1982
Note that the absolute value of 1982 can also be written as abs(1982) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1983
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