The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1723 or 1723?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1723?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1723| = ?
The absolute value of 1723 is the distance between 1723 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1723:
Since the distance between 1723 and 0 on a number line is 1723, we get the answer as follows:
|1723| = 1723
Note that the absolute value of 1723 can also be written as abs(1723) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1724
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