The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1471 or 1471?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1471?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1471| = ?
The absolute value of 1471 is the distance between 1471 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1471:
Since the distance between 1471 and 0 on a number line is 1471, we get the answer as follows:
|1471| = 1471
Note that the absolute value of 1471 can also be written as abs(1471) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1472
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