The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1994 or 1994?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1994?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1994| = ?
The absolute value of 1994 is the distance between 1994 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1994:
Since the distance between 1994 and 0 on a number line is 1994, we get the answer as follows:
|1994| = 1994
Note that the absolute value of 1994 can also be written as abs(1994) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1995
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