The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1574 or 1574?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1574?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1574| = ?
The absolute value of 1574 is the distance between 1574 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1574:

Since the distance between 1574 and 0 on a number line is 1574, we get the answer as follows:
|1574| = 1574
Note that the absolute value of 1574 can also be written as abs(1574) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1575
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