The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1696 or 1696?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1696?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1696| = ?
The absolute value of 1696 is the distance between 1696 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1696:
Since the distance between 1696 and 0 on a number line is 1696, we get the answer as follows:
|1696| = 1696
Note that the absolute value of 1696 can also be written as abs(1696) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1697
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