The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1470 or 1470?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1470?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1470| = ?
The absolute value of 1470 is the distance between 1470 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1470:
Since the distance between 1470 and 0 on a number line is 1470, we get the answer as follows:
|1470| = 1470
Note that the absolute value of 1470 can also be written as abs(1470) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1471
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