The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1647 or 1647?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1647?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1647| = ?
The absolute value of 1647 is the distance between 1647 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1647:
Since the distance between 1647 and 0 on a number line is 1647, we get the answer as follows:
|1647| = 1647
Note that the absolute value of 1647 can also be written as abs(1647) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1648
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