The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1170 or 1170?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1170?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1170| = ?
The absolute value of 1170 is the distance between 1170 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1170:
Since the distance between 1170 and 0 on a number line is 1170, we get the answer as follows:
|1170| = 1170
Note that the absolute value of 1170 can also be written as abs(1170) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1171
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