The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 173 or 173?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 173?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|173| = ?
The absolute value of 173 is the distance between 173 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 173:
Since the distance between 173 and 0 on a number line is 173, we get the answer as follows:
|173| = 173
Note that the absolute value of 173 can also be written as abs(173) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 174
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