The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1995 or 1995?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1995?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1995| = ?
The absolute value of 1995 is the distance between 1995 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1995:
Since the distance between 1995 and 0 on a number line is 1995, we get the answer as follows:
|1995| = 1995
Note that the absolute value of 1995 can also be written as abs(1995) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1996
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