The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2420 or 2420?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2420?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2420| = ?
The absolute value of 2420 is the distance between 2420 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2420:

Since the distance between 2420 and 0 on a number line is 2420, we get the answer as follows:
|2420| = 2420
Note that the absolute value of 2420 can also be written as abs(2420) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2421
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