The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1715 or 1715?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1715?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1715| = ?
The absolute value of 1715 is the distance between 1715 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1715:
Since the distance between 1715 and 0 on a number line is 1715, we get the answer as follows:
|1715| = 1715
Note that the absolute value of 1715 can also be written as abs(1715) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1716
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