The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1672 or 1672?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1672?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1672| = ?
The absolute value of 1672 is the distance between 1672 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1672:

Since the distance between 1672 and 0 on a number line is 1672, we get the answer as follows:
|1672| = 1672
Note that the absolute value of 1672 can also be written as abs(1672) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1673
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