The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1097 or 1097?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1097?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1097| = ?
The absolute value of 1097 is the distance between 1097 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1097:

Since the distance between 1097 and 0 on a number line is 1097, we get the answer as follows:
|1097| = 1097
Note that the absolute value of 1097 can also be written as abs(1097) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1098
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