The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2087 or 2087?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2087?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2087| = ?
The absolute value of 2087 is the distance between 2087 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2087:
Since the distance between 2087 and 0 on a number line is 2087, we get the answer as follows:
|2087| = 2087
Note that the absolute value of 2087 can also be written as abs(2087) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2088
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