The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1985 or 1985?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1985?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1985| = ?
The absolute value of 1985 is the distance between 1985 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1985:
Since the distance between 1985 and 0 on a number line is 1985, we get the answer as follows:
|1985| = 1985
Note that the absolute value of 1985 can also be written as abs(1985) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1986
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