The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1477 or 1477?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1477?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1477| = ?
The absolute value of 1477 is the distance between 1477 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1477:
Since the distance between 1477 and 0 on a number line is 1477, we get the answer as follows:
|1477| = 1477
Note that the absolute value of 1477 can also be written as abs(1477) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1478
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