The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1730 or 1730?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1730?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1730| = ?
The absolute value of 1730 is the distance between 1730 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1730:
Since the distance between 1730 and 0 on a number line is 1730, we get the answer as follows:
|1730| = 1730
Note that the absolute value of 1730 can also be written as abs(1730) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1731
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