The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1989 or 1989?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1989?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1989| = ?
The absolute value of 1989 is the distance between 1989 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1989:
Since the distance between 1989 and 0 on a number line is 1989, we get the answer as follows:
|1989| = 1989
Note that the absolute value of 1989 can also be written as abs(1989) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1990
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