The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1317 or 1317?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1317?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1317| = ?
The absolute value of 1317 is the distance between 1317 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1317:
Since the distance between 1317 and 0 on a number line is 1317, we get the answer as follows:
|1317| = 1317
Note that the absolute value of 1317 can also be written as abs(1317) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1318
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