The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2016 or 2016?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2016?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2016| = ?
The absolute value of 2016 is the distance between 2016 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2016:
Since the distance between 2016 and 0 on a number line is 2016, we get the answer as follows:
|2016| = 2016
Note that the absolute value of 2016 can also be written as abs(2016) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2017
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