The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1699 or 1699?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1699?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1699| = ?
The absolute value of 1699 is the distance between 1699 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1699:

Since the distance between 1699 and 0 on a number line is 1699, we get the answer as follows:
|1699| = 1699
Note that the absolute value of 1699 can also be written as abs(1699) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1700
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