The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2008 or 2008?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2008?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2008| = ?
The absolute value of 2008 is the distance between 2008 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2008:
Since the distance between 2008 and 0 on a number line is 2008, we get the answer as follows:
|2008| = 2008
Note that the absolute value of 2008 can also be written as abs(2008) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2009
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