The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1702 or 1702?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1702?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1702| = ?
The absolute value of 1702 is the distance between 1702 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1702:
Since the distance between 1702 and 0 on a number line is 1702, we get the answer as follows:
|1702| = 1702
Note that the absolute value of 1702 can also be written as abs(1702) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1703
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