The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1497 or 1497?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1497?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1497| = ?
The absolute value of 1497 is the distance between 1497 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1497:
Since the distance between 1497 and 0 on a number line is 1497, we get the answer as follows:
|1497| = 1497
Note that the absolute value of 1497 can also be written as abs(1497) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1498
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