The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1706 or 1706?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1706?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1706| = ?
The absolute value of 1706 is the distance between 1706 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1706:
Since the distance between 1706 and 0 on a number line is 1706, we get the answer as follows:
|1706| = 1706
Note that the absolute value of 1706 can also be written as abs(1706) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1707
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