The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1984 or 1984?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1984?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1984| = ?
The absolute value of 1984 is the distance between 1984 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1984:
Since the distance between 1984 and 0 on a number line is 1984, we get the answer as follows:
|1984| = 1984
Note that the absolute value of 1984 can also be written as abs(1984) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1985
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