The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2485 or 2485?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2485?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2485| = ?
The absolute value of 2485 is the distance between 2485 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2485:

Since the distance between 2485 and 0 on a number line is 2485, we get the answer as follows:
|2485| = 2485
Note that the absolute value of 2485 can also be written as abs(2485) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2486
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