The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2085 or 2085?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2085?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2085| = ?
The absolute value of 2085 is the distance between 2085 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2085:

Since the distance between 2085 and 0 on a number line is 2085, we get the answer as follows:
|2085| = 2085
Note that the absolute value of 2085 can also be written as abs(2085) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2086
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