The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1992 or 1992?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1992?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1992| = ?
The absolute value of 1992 is the distance between 1992 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1992:
Since the distance between 1992 and 0 on a number line is 1992, we get the answer as follows:
|1992| = 1992
Note that the absolute value of 1992 can also be written as abs(1992) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1993
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