The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1988 or 1988?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1988?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1988| = ?
The absolute value of 1988 is the distance between 1988 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1988:
Since the distance between 1988 and 0 on a number line is 1988, we get the answer as follows:
|1988| = 1988
Note that the absolute value of 1988 can also be written as abs(1988) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1989
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