The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1517 or 1517?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1517?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1517| = ?
The absolute value of 1517 is the distance between 1517 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1517:
Since the distance between 1517 and 0 on a number line is 1517, we get the answer as follows:
|1517| = 1517
Note that the absolute value of 1517 can also be written as abs(1517) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1518
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