The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2011 or 2011?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2011?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2011| = ?
The absolute value of 2011 is the distance between 2011 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2011:
Since the distance between 2011 and 0 on a number line is 2011, we get the answer as follows:
|2011| = 2011
Note that the absolute value of 2011 can also be written as abs(2011) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2012
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