The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2004 or 2004?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2004?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2004| = ?
The absolute value of 2004 is the distance between 2004 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2004:
Since the distance between 2004 and 0 on a number line is 2004, we get the answer as follows:
|2004| = 2004
Note that the absolute value of 2004 can also be written as abs(2004) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2005
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