The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2238 or 2238?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2238?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2238| = ?
The absolute value of 2238 is the distance between 2238 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2238:

Since the distance between 2238 and 0 on a number line is 2238, we get the answer as follows:
|2238| = 2238
Note that the absolute value of 2238 can also be written as abs(2238) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2239
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