The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1177 or 1177?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1177?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1177| = ?
The absolute value of 1177 is the distance between 1177 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1177:

Since the distance between 1177 and 0 on a number line is 1177, we get the answer as follows:
|1177| = 1177
Note that the absolute value of 1177 can also be written as abs(1177) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1178
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