The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1701 or 1701?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1701?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1701| = ?
The absolute value of 1701 is the distance between 1701 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1701:
Since the distance between 1701 and 0 on a number line is 1701, we get the answer as follows:
|1701| = 1701
Note that the absolute value of 1701 can also be written as abs(1701) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1702
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