The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2014 or 2014?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2014?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2014| = ?
The absolute value of 2014 is the distance between 2014 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2014:
Since the distance between 2014 and 0 on a number line is 2014, we get the answer as follows:
|2014| = 2014
Note that the absolute value of 2014 can also be written as abs(2014) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2015
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