The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1719 or 1719?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1719?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1719| = ?
The absolute value of 1719 is the distance between 1719 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1719:
Since the distance between 1719 and 0 on a number line is 1719, we get the answer as follows:
|1719| = 1719
Note that the absolute value of 1719 can also be written as abs(1719) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1720
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