The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2138 or 2138?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2138?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2138| = ?
The absolute value of 2138 is the distance between 2138 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2138:
Since the distance between 2138 and 0 on a number line is 2138, we get the answer as follows:
|2138| = 2138
Note that the absolute value of 2138 can also be written as abs(2138) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2139
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