The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2489 or 2489?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2489?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2489| = ?
The absolute value of 2489 is the distance between 2489 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2489:

Since the distance between 2489 and 0 on a number line is 2489, we get the answer as follows:
|2489| = 2489
Note that the absolute value of 2489 can also be written as abs(2489) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2490
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