The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2487 or 2487?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2487?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2487| = ?
The absolute value of 2487 is the distance between 2487 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2487:
Since the distance between 2487 and 0 on a number line is 2487, we get the answer as follows:
|2487| = 2487
Note that the absolute value of 2487 can also be written as abs(2487) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2488
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