The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2003 or 2003?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2003?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2003| = ?
The absolute value of 2003 is the distance between 2003 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2003:
Since the distance between 2003 and 0 on a number line is 2003, we get the answer as follows:
|2003| = 2003
Note that the absolute value of 2003 can also be written as abs(2003) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2004
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