The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2427 or 2427?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2427?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2427| = ?
The absolute value of 2427 is the distance between 2427 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2427:

Since the distance between 2427 and 0 on a number line is 2427, we get the answer as follows:
|2427| = 2427
Note that the absolute value of 2427 can also be written as abs(2427) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2428
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