The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1476 or 1476?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1476?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1476| = ?
The absolute value of 1476 is the distance between 1476 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1476:

Since the distance between 1476 and 0 on a number line is 1476, we get the answer as follows:
|1476| = 1476
Note that the absolute value of 1476 can also be written as abs(1476) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1477
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