The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2142 or 2142?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2142?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2142| = ?
The absolute value of 2142 is the distance between 2142 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2142:
Since the distance between 2142 and 0 on a number line is 2142, we get the answer as follows:
|2142| = 2142
Note that the absolute value of 2142 can also be written as abs(2142) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2143
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