The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1700 or 1700?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1700?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1700| = ?
The absolute value of 1700 is the distance between 1700 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1700:
Since the distance between 1700 and 0 on a number line is 1700, we get the answer as follows:
|1700| = 1700
Note that the absolute value of 1700 can also be written as abs(1700) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1701
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