The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1725 or 1725?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1725?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1725| = ?
The absolute value of 1725 is the distance between 1725 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1725:

Since the distance between 1725 and 0 on a number line is 1725, we get the answer as follows:
|1725| = 1725
Note that the absolute value of 1725 can also be written as abs(1725) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1726
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