The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1711 or 1711?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1711?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1711| = ?
The absolute value of 1711 is the distance between 1711 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1711:
Since the distance between 1711 and 0 on a number line is 1711, we get the answer as follows:
|1711| = 1711
Note that the absolute value of 1711 can also be written as abs(1711) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1712
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