The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1697 or 1697?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1697?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1697| = ?
The absolute value of 1697 is the distance between 1697 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1697:
Since the distance between 1697 and 0 on a number line is 1697, we get the answer as follows:
|1697| = 1697
Note that the absolute value of 1697 can also be written as abs(1697) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1698
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