The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1987 or 1987?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1987?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1987| = ?
The absolute value of 1987 is the distance between 1987 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1987:
Since the distance between 1987 and 0 on a number line is 1987, we get the answer as follows:
|1987| = 1987
Note that the absolute value of 1987 can also be written as abs(1987) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1988
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