The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2137 or 2137?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2137?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2137| = ?
The absolute value of 2137 is the distance between 2137 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2137:
Since the distance between 2137 and 0 on a number line is 2137, we get the answer as follows:
|2137| = 2137
Note that the absolute value of 2137 can also be written as abs(2137) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2138
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